Reformed Orthodoxy: Sources, Method and Prolegomena
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An introduction to post-Reformation Reformed dogmatics: what Reformed orthodoxy and scholastic method are, and how the loci method works. Students read the prolegomena of Polanus, Wollebius, the Leiden Synopsis, Turretin and van Mastricht in their historical setting.
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.
- Recovering the Past for Use in the Present: Richard Muller (Office Hours podcast) Richard A. Muller (P. J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology, Calvin Theological Seminary) Open source Doctrinal Westminster Seminary California, Office Hours Both are historians/editors in a denomination that now admits women to office (contrary to the historic reading of 1 Tim. 2-3 assumed by the Church Order of Dort and the Form of Church Government). Their items here are historical and editorial, not doctrinal instruction, and neither is known for teaching against the...
- Prolegomena - Introduction to Theology (1st lecture) Joel R. Beeke 34 min (2061 s) Open source Doctrinal Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (SermonAudio broadcaster prts) Intramural. Dort I.7 and WCF 3 are written in infralapsarian terms but tolerate supralapsarians (Gomarus, Twisse, Rutherford); Bavinck and Turretin are infralapsarian. Present as a permitted difference within both confessions; no removal.
- Francis Turretin on Ecclesiastical Power (PRTS ThM seminar) Nathan Eshelman (Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America; Los Angeles RPC) 38:37 Open source Supplementary Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary ThM seminar, published by Los Angeles Reformed Presbyterian Church (SermonAudio broadcaster rpcla)
Total: 1.2 hours