Melville Divinity Hall
ST502 · 4 credits · Graduate

Scripture and the Doctrine of God (Loci I)

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The first block of systematic theology, taught from the confessions: the authority and sufficiency of Scripture, the being and attributes of God, the Trinity, the decree and predestination, creation and providence. Each week pairs a passage of the confessions with an orthodox divine on the same locus and a confessional lecture.

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.

    • Theology Proper (22-lecture PRTS course) Joel R. Beeke 22 lectures, recorded 4-7 Feb 2011 Open source Doctrinal Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary via SermonAudio 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.
    • Predestination (1) - Lecture 17 of Theology Proper Joel R. Beeke 1:15:39 (4539 s) Open source Doctrinal Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary via SermonAudio 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.
    • Westminster Confession of Faith, Wednesday adult class (Phillips) Richard D. Phillips (Presbyterian Church in America) 40 sessions, 6 Sep 2021 - 8 May 2023 Open source Supplementary Second Presbyterian Church, Greenville SC (PCA), via SermonAudio These teachers subscribe to the American revision of the WCF (1788/ARP text) in chs. 20.4, 23.3 and 31.2, not the 1647 text on the civil magistrate and the calling of synods. Doctrinally they are otherwise within the Standards. Use freely for chs. 1-19, 21-22, 24-30, 32-33; present their sessions on chs. 20, 23 and...
    • The History of the Heidelberg Catechism (Christ the Center) William Boekestein (pastor, Covenant Reformed Church, Carbondale, PA) with Camden Bucey and Jim Cassidy Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum Reformed Forum pages state no church affiliation. To the reviewer's knowledge Waddington and Bucey are OPC ministers (American 1788 text); Ragusa's page links Messiah's Reformed Fellowship (New York); Sutanto's standing is not stated. he18 re-roled supplementary; ctc512 and ctc571 stay doctrinal because the topics...
    • Recovering the Past for Use in the Present: Richard Muller (Office Hours) Richard A. Muller (P. J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology, Calvin Theological Seminary) Open source History Westminster Seminary California Christian Reformed Church historian; not a subscriber in the PRD's sense. Role history; affiliation shown on the page; never the sole source for a unit (each course also has a subscriber's lecture).
    • Theology of Wilhelmus a Brakel (1st lecture of PRTS course) Bartel Elshout (Heritage Reformed Congregations) 45:22 Open source Doctrinal Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary via SermonAudio HRC subscribes the Three Forms and holds the free offer; no PRD standing note is triggered. Recorded so the build does not confuse HRC with the PRC note in PRD 4.4. No action; doctrinal role stands.

    Total: 2 hours

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