Reformed Orthodoxy: Sources, Method and Prolegomena

1. 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

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

   • Synopsis purioris theologiae (Latin, Leiden: Donner, 1881 reprint of the 1625 text) Johannes Polyander, Andre Rivet, Antonius Walaeus, Antonius Thysius xiv + 669 pp. Open source Primary text 1881. Public domain
   • Reformed Dogmatics: J. Wollebius, G. Voetius, F. Turretin (ed. John W. Beardslee III) Johannes Wollebius; Gisbertus Voetius; Francis Turretin (editor Beardslee, Reformed Church in America) Open source Doctrinal 1965. Free online RCA has moved outside the confessional line on office and ethics; Beardslee is a translator/editor only. Keep as a translation; doctrine is Wollebius's and Turretin's own. If the EEBO-TCP text of Ross's 1650 Wollebius becomes reachable, prefer that public-domain translation. Intramural. Dort I.7 and WCF 3 are...
   • Scholasticism, Reformation, Orthodoxy, and the Persistence of Christian Aristotelianism (Trinity Journal 19:1, Spring 1998) Richard A. Muller Open source Supplementary 1998. Purchase (optional) 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...
   • Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, 4 vols. Richard A. Muller Supplementary No link: find it in a library or bookstore. 2003. Purchase (optional) 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...
   • Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL), index of free primary-source scans Junius Institute, Calvin Theological Seminary Open source Doctrinal Free online 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...
   • Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Beveridge trans.), vol. 1 John Calvin 676 scanned pages Open source Primary text 1845 (Beveridge ed.). Public domain
   • The Abridgment of Christian Divinitie (English translation by Alexander Ross) Johannes Wollebius (Wolleb); trans. Alexander Ross 480 scanned pages Open source Primary text 1660 (Ross trans.; Latin original 1626/1634). Public domain
   • The Marrow of Sacred Divinity (English) William Ames 388 scanned pages Open source Primary text 1639 (English ed.; Latin 1627/1634). Public domain
   • Systema theologiae (Latin), vol. 1 (Hanau 1609) Amandus Polanus Latin; extent not stated on hub Open source Primary text 1609; vol. 2 1615. Public domain
   • Polanus, Syntagma: Table of Contents in English Reformed Books Online (translation of Polanus) PDF, 243 KB Open source Primary text Free online
   • Of Theology, or the Rule of Theological Study (De theologo, seu de ratione studii theologici) Andreas Hyperius 756 pp. (hub) Open source Primary text 1559; ed. 1582 (hub); 756 pp.. Public domain
   • System of Scriptural Theology in 3 books (Systema S.S. Theologiae) Bartholomaeus Keckermann Latin; extent not stated Open source Primary text 1607; 1610 (hub). Public domain
   • Opuscula theologica selecta (Tract on True Theology, pp. 37 ff.; Theses on true theology, p. 104) Franciscus Junius; ed. Abraham Kuyper 542 scans Open source Primary text 1882. Public domain
   • Theological Lectures on natural theology, evidences, the canon and inspiration of Scripture William Cunningham (Free Church of Scotland) 650 scanned pages Open source Doctrinal 1878. Public domain
   • Bavinck, Preface to the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (English translation and introduction, Bavinck Review 8) Henk van den Belt and Mathilde de Vries-van Uden (translators) 14 pp. (pp. 101-114) Open source History 2017. Free online
   • Rutherford, Examination of Arminianism: Tables of Contents with Excerpts from Every Chapter (English) Samuel Rutherford; ed. Johnson and Fentiman PDF, 1.1 MB Open source Primary text 2019 (RBO). Free online
   • Doctrinae Christianae compendium, seu Commentarii catechetici (Latin) Zacharias Ursinus 892 scans Open source Primary text 1585. Free online
   • Reformed Dogmatics (Heppe), set out and illustrated from the sources Heinrich Heppe; ed. Bizer 746 scans Open source Supplementary Wipf 2007 ed. per hub (archive copy bwb_P8-DFH-984 is dated 1965). Borrow only (lending library)
   • Reformed Systematic Theologies in Latin, to 1650 (annotated index with English contents and scan links) Reformed Books Online (Travis Fentiman, RPCNA) annotated hub page (further reading) Open source Supplementary Free online

   Total: 1,439 pages

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 30 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.