New Testament Exegesis I: The Gospels and Acts

1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

   • Preaching the Christ of the Gospels (12 lectures) Edmund Clowney (Westminster Theological Seminary; Orthodox Presbyterian Church minister) 12 lectures Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
   • Parables and Miracles (12 lectures) Vern Poythress (Westminster Theological Seminary) 12 lectures, 2001 Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
   • Worship in the Gospel of John (8 lectures) Edmund Clowney (Westminster Theological Seminary; Orthodox Presbyterian Church minister) 8 lectures (the ministry of joy; the Holy Spirit; Christ and the temple) Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
   • Acts and Paul (45 lectures; the Acts material is about lectures 1-17) Richard Gaffin (Westminster Theological Seminary) 45 lectures, 2005 (Kingdom of God in the teaching of Jesus; the Holy Spirit and the kingdom in Luke and Acts; Pentecost; historical-critical interpretations of Acts) Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
   • Matthew 1:1-18 The Royal Line of Christ (Proclaiming Christ) Joel Fick and Mark A. Winder Open source Supplementary Reformed Forum The episode pages name the participants but do not print their churches. Reformed Forum's About page requires its board members to belong to NAPARC or ICRC churches subscribing to the Three Forms or the Westminster Standards, and its board page lists Cassidy (president), Arendale (vice president) and Clawson, so...
   • Mark 1:14-45 What Is the Gospel (Proclaiming Christ) Jim Cassidy, Mark A. Winder and Robert Arendale Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum The episode pages name the participants but do not print their churches. Reformed Forum's About page requires its board members to belong to NAPARC or ICRC churches subscribing to the Three Forms or the Westminster Standards, and its board page lists Cassidy (president), Arendale (vice president) and Clawson, so...
   • The Gospels (video series) 5 lessons Open source Supplementary Third Millennium Ministries
   • The Book of Acts (video series) Hans Bayer and guests 3 lessons Open source Supplementary Third Millennium Ministries
   • Los Evangelios (video and slides) Seminario Reformado Guadalajara (instructor not named on the page) Open source Supplementary Seminario Reformado Guadalajara Instructors are not named on the course pages (the site belongs to Dr. Larry Trotter, Florida Coast Church / Knox Theological Seminary adjunct); the Hebrew and Greek courses are by Mario Porras and Pablo Armero (MINTS), whose church standing is unconfirmed. The site also hosts PDFs of in-copyright textbooks...

2. Reading Read in the order given. Public-domain and free texts are linked; purchases are optional and never required.

   • Commentary on Matthew, Mark, Luke, vol. 1 John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • Commentary on John, vol. 1 John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • Commentary on Acts, vol. 1 John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew David Dickson Open source Primary text 1647. Public domain
   • Discourses and Sayings of Our Lord Jesus Christ John Brown of Edinburgh (United Secession and United Presbyterian Church) Open source Primary text 1864. Public domain Secession (Associate, United Secession, United Presbyterian) divines held the Westminster Standards with the Secession declaration on the civil magistrate (voluntaryism), which differs from WCF 23 (1647) and from the Free Church establishment principle. Kept as primary-text for exegesis; the civil-magistrate...
   • Annotations upon the Holy Bible, vol. 2 (1688 edition) Matthew Poole Open source Primary text 1688. Public domain English Presbyterian nonconformists outside the Scottish and Dutch lines, though Westminster-confessing; Henry is broadly used across traditions. Poole kept as primary-text (cross-tradition, read beside Calvin and the Dutch Annotations); Henry kept as supplementary, as in the raw file.
   • The Dutch Annotations upon the Whole Bible (Statenvertaling annotations, English 1657) Theodore Haak (translator and editor); annotations commissioned by the Synod of Dort (1618) Open source Primary text 1657. Public domain
   • Matthew Henry's Commentary, vol. 5 (Matthew to John) Matthew Henry Open source Supplementary Public domain English Presbyterian nonconformists outside the Scottish and Dutch lines, though Westminster-confessing; Henry is broadly used across traditions. Poole kept as primary-text (cross-tradition, read beside Calvin and the Dutch Annotations); Henry kept as supplementary, as in the raw file.

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 10-20 pages on a topic drawn from the lectures and readings of this course. Argue from Scripture, the Westminster Standards (1647 text) and the Three Forms of Unity, cite the primary sources you read, and state the points on which the sources differ.

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Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.