The Church, Sacraments and Last Things (Loci III)
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The doctrine of the church as the Scottish and Dutch confessions hold it: the church and its keys, government, the sacraments, the civil magistrate and synods, and the last judgment. It compares the Scottish presbyterian order with the Dutch church-order tradition.
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.
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- 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.
- The Westminster Standards (audio course, 29 chapters of the Confession) Sinclair B. Ferguson (ordained Church of Scotland; later Associate Reformed Presbyterian) 29 chapters covered Open source Doctrinal The Gospel Coalition Courses 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 Westminster Confession (34 sessions, incl. 'US Revisions to WCF Chapter 23') Andrew Webb (Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church; MDiv Westminster Theological Seminary) 34 sessions, 15 Jan 2014 - 28 Mar 2024 Open source Supplementary Providence ARP Church, Fayetteville NC, 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 Belgic Confession (sermon series, arts. 1-37) Steve Oeverman (with Ed Marcusse), United Reformed Churches in North America 76 sermons, 6 Jun 2020 - 3 Aug 2026 Open source Supplementary Oak Glen United Reformed Church, via SermonAudio 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.