Turretin and High Orthodoxy: Elenctic Theology, Mastricht and Brakel
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A seminar on the high orthodox method: Turretin's disputations against Rome, the Socinians and the Remonstrants, Mastricht's pattern of exegesis, doctrine, refutation and practice, and Brakel's dogmatics for the congregation. Turretin is read in the free 1847 Latin edition beside Witsius, Ames and Mastricht; the English Turretin is further reading.
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.
- Theology of Wilhelmus a Brakel (1st lecture of PRTS course) Bartel Elshout (Heritage Reformed Congregations; translator of The Christian's Reasonable Service) 45:22 (2722 s) Open source Doctrinal Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary via SermonAudio
- Francis Turretin on Ecclesiastical Power (PRTS ThM seminar) Nathan Eshelman (Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America) 38:37 Open source Doctrinal PRTS ThM seminar, published by Los Angeles RPC (SermonAudio rpcla)
- R.C. Sproul and Turretin's Institutes of Elenctic Theology (Open Book podcast) Stephen J. Nichols with R. C. Sproul Open source Supplementary Ligonier Ministries
- Turretin and Right Reason (Historia Ecclesiastica) Jeff Waddington with Camden Bucey Open source Supplementary 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...
- R.C. Sproul and Turretin's Institutes of Elenctic Theology (Open Book) Stephen J. Nichols with R. C. Sproul Open source Supplementary Ligonier Ministries American subscribers (1788 text). Their material here concerns worship and Turretin's method, not the civil magistrate. Used freely under the PRD rule for American subscribers; the OPC reports are shown as a primary source with the page's own note that they are not constitutional. If any is used on WCF 20.4, 23 or...
- 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 (Office Hours podcast) 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).
Total: 1.4 hours