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Surface Patrol
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| Posted 4/8/2008 9:13 PM (GMT -6) |   | Greetings, I am new here and enjoy reading the numerous and varied discussions. I wish I had gotten on board sooner and look forward to catching up on all that has gone on before. I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in the Chicago area near Gordon Olson. When he was not out of town lecturing I would attend his monthly lectures in his home. I will never forget those meetings which largely shaped my theological views. After he passed away I had the privilege of living in his home for two years and organizing his library which is now housed in St. Louis including his collection of original L.D. McCabe manuscripts. I now live in Florida.
While I was a student at the University Of Illinois At Champaign-Urbana in the mid-1980’s I accidentally found a reference to some books in the National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints by Samuel Fancourt (1678-1768) who in the 1720’s advanced the idea that future contingent events where unknowable to God. Although Fancourt is now best known for developing circulating libraries his theological works generated several published responses. I was able obtain a couple of his works through inter-library loan. However, most of his works, and those of his opponents, are non-circulating and are very hard to acquire. These skirmishes in regard to God’s omniscience are not well known and I hope to make some of these publications available in order to document this period of history. I have a web site under construction about Fancourt which can temporarily be found at :
http://clukashow.googlepages.com/home
The site is in its infancy and is my first attempt at a web page. Thus far I have posted, with much needed help from my wife, a bibliography of Fancourt and his opponents, a portion of his important book. “An Essay On Liberty, Grace and Prescience” which will be posted in its entirety as time permits, followed by other Fancourt works and those of his opponents. One of my first objectives is to establish that he was orthodox in his views regarding the Trinity and the Deity of Christ and was not a Unitarian. At this point I am highly confident that he was orthodox in his views but I have not yet acquired a copy of the publication I think I need to conclusively establish his orthodoxy. There are relatively few libraries in the United States that own copies of these books. Many of them can be found at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Duke, ect. but as I mentioned earlier, they are generally non-circulating and not available through inter-library loan. Some of these libraries indicate electronic versions are available but I have not been able to access them. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Laika
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| Posted 4/9/2008 7:50 AM (GMT -6) | |
Surface Patrol said...
There are relatively few libraries in the United States that own copies of these books. Many of them can be found at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Duke, ect. but as I mentioned earlier, they are generally non-circulating and not available through inter-library loan. My nephew is doing his PhD at Harvard, I could ask him to check the availability of these and the possibility of getting photocopies.
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Surface Patrol
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| Posted 4/9/2008 5:59 PM (GMT -6) | | Yes, that would be great if he would be willing to check on availability. Of course I will advance the costs or reimburse for him any expense incurred as well as acknowledge him at the web site for supplying the information. I would think a Ph.D student would have some access to these books.
Thanks,
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