Melville Divinity Hall
ST502 · 4 credits · Graduate

Scripture and the Doctrine of God (Loci I)

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

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

  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.

    Open the assignment

  4. In Spanish (supplementary) Spanish-language lectures and readings, supplementary. The English lectures above remain the core; strong English lectures are translated rather than replaced by weaker Spanish ones.

    • Teologia sistematica (31 MP3 lectures; Vimeo album 1674616) Larry Trotter (Lawrence C. Trotter N., Ph.D.) 31 audio lectures (1Revelacion through 31Escatologia4); individual durations not printed on the page Open source Supplementary Seminario Reformado Guadalajara; Trotter is pastor of Florida Coast Church (PCA) and adjunct at Knox Theological Seminary PCA minister (confirmed on floridacoastchurch.org: 'Florida Coast Church (PCA)'), so a Westminster subscriber on the 1788 American text; the seminary serves the Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de Mexico (Presbiterio del Bajio), which also uses the American 23.3. His lectures on WCF chs. 20, 23 and 31 are therefore...
    • R.C. Sproul, Que es la teologia reformada? (Renovando Tu Mente series) R.C. Sproul 12 episodes (corrected from 13: the series page links 12 episode pages, from 'Que es la teologia reformada?' to 'Perseverancia de los santos') Open source Supplementary Ministerios Ligonier (Spanish) PCA minister (American text). The Decalogue series' 'Descansa' episode does not teach the WCF 21.7-8 / Directory Sabbath and the second-commandment episodes do not teach exclusive psalmody or Dort art. 69. No Spanish advocate of exclusive psalmody, of the Dort 69 position, of the establishment principle or of...
    • Institucion de la religion cristiana (trans. Cipriano de Valera, London: Ricardo del Campo, 1597) Juan Calvino; trans. Cipriano de Valera; ed. Luis de Usoz y Rio 1,106 scanned images (archive.org metadata); PDF, EPUB and OCR text Open source Supplementary 1597. Public domain
    • Teologia sistematica: descripcion del curso y 31 apuntes (PDF) Larry Trotter (Lawrence C. Trotter N., Ph.D.) 83 pages (pdfinfo), 13.7 MB Open source Supplementary Free PCA minister (confirmed on floridacoastchurch.org: 'Florida Coast Church (PCA)'), so a Westminster subscriber on the 1788 American text; the seminary serves the Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de Mexico (Presbiterio del Bajio), which also uses the American 23.3. His lectures on WCF chs. 20, 23 and 31 are therefore...

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.