Melville Divinity Hall
CR501 · 3 credits · Graduate

The Synod of Dort and the Canons

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The Remonstrant controversy, the Synod of Dort (1618-1619) and the pastoral intent of its Canons. Students work through the five heads of doctrine together with the rejection of errors.

These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.

How to begin

  1. Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
  2. Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
  3. Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
  4. Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.

Syllabus

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

    • Continental Confessions, lecture 10 of 10: The Canons of Dort, TULIP Dr. Peter Lillback 34 min Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary (Westminster Media)
    • History of the Synod of Dort Dr. Stephen Pollock 41 min Open source History Free Presbyterian Church of Malvern (Free Presbyterian Church of North America), via SermonAudio
    • Dordt400 conference series (15 items) Russell Dykstra, Barry Gritters, Brian Huizinga, Ronald Cammenga, Douglas Kuiper, Angus Stewart, Mark Shand, William Langerak 15 sermons/lectures, 25-26 Apr 2019; e.g. 'The Canons as the Original Five Points of Calvinism' (Stewart) 50:01, 'The Polity of Dordt' (Langerak) 57:19, 'Assurance' (Gritters) 53:51 Open source Doctrinal Trinity Protestant Reformed Church evangelism committee, via SermonAudio PRC holds the Three Forms but adds distinctives: denial of common grace and of the well-meant offer, and an unconditional-covenant polemic against conditional-covenant views held by other Three Forms churches (and against the Westminster 'offer' language, WCF 7.3, Canons II.5, III/IV.8). Keep as...
    • The Synod of Dort collection (Ligonier Learn) W. Robert Godfrey, Cornelis Venema, Joel Beeke, Daniel R. Hyde, Stephen Nichols 11 items: 1 video (Godfrey, 'How Did We Get the Five Points of Calvinism?'), 1 interview video 25 min (Godfrey), 2 podcasts (Nichols; Nichols with Godfrey), 7 articles Open source Doctrinal Ligonier Ministries

    Total: 2.5 hours

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