“The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds.”

The spine. Creation to new creation, read as one narrative — everything else is commentary on this.

The doctrines in the order they assume one another — God, Scripture, Christ, salvation, the Church.

From the apostles to now — the arguments, councils and reformations that shaped what we say.

The texts themselves — Nicene, Chalcedonian, Westminster — read as they were written.