The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

Banner Book

I bought a few books at Banner. The main one was the works of Andrew Fuller in one massive volume. It is difficult to know how much I will use it (although I have found one helpful article already) but if Banner are going to produce books by and about Baptists then Baptists ought to at least buy them!
For more about and by Fuller see here and here and here.
There is a project to produce the complete works in a critical edition but quite where that project has got to I am not sure.

PS Dates for Banner 2009: 27-30 April. Main Speakers: Sinclair Ferguson, (also see here), Derek Thomas and Garry Williams. Also Lyndsay Brown. Theme: John Calvin .

2 comments:

Allen R. Mickle, Jr. said...

The critical edition of Andrew Fuller's works is being published by Paternoster Press. The first one should be due out later this year.

Allen Mickle
Managing Editor,
Eusebeia: The Bulletin of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies

Gary Brady said...

Allen, thanks for that info. It couldn't have been fuller (;-)).I wasn't able to find that info anywhere on the net.