Melville Divinity Hall
ST506 · 3 credits · Graduate

Federal and Catechetical Orthodoxy: Witsius, Ursinus, Leigh and Boston

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The covenants of works and of grace in Witsius, the whole Heidelberg Catechism in Ursinus's Commentary and the Shorter Catechism in Thomas Boston's Body of Divinity, with Leigh's System as a reference. Read together, they let the Scottish and continental lines be studied in one course from free public-domain English texts.

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.

    • 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: 0.8 hours

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