The Westminster Standards: the 1647 Text and the 1788 American Revision
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A comparison course. Students read the Confession as the Church of Scotland adopted it in 1647, which is the school's standard, beside the American text of 1788, with attention to WCF 20.4, 23.3, 25.6 and 31.1-2 and Larger Catechism 109. The American revision is studied as a comparison, not taught as the school's position.
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
- Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
- Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
- Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.
Syllabus
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Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.
- Westminster and Theonomy Rev. David Silversides 1 h 16 min 16 s Open source Doctrinal Loughbrickland Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPC of Ireland) / SermonAudio Intramural within the Scottish stream: both hold the 1647 text of WCF 23, but Reformed Presbyterians add political dissent from uncovenanted constitutions, which the Free Church tradition (Cunningham, Bannerman, Moncreiff, FP Magazine) rejects. Present both as confessional options under the 1647 text in the Headship...
- Christ's Kirk (Acts 20:28) and Christian Liberty (Galatians 5:1), lectures 6-7 of a ten-lecture series Prof. Donald Macleod (Free Church of Scotland) Christ's Kirk 1 h 29 min 40 s; Christian Liberty 1 h 20 min 31 s Open source Supplementary Free Church of Scotland (Free Church Legacy audio archive)
Total: 2.8 hours