Turretin and High Orthodoxy: Elenctic Theology, Mastricht and Brakel

1. 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

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

   • Institutio theologiae elencticae, vol. 2 (Latin, Edinburgh: J.D. Lowe/Lawe, 1847) Francis Turretin (with Benedict Pictet's Oratio de vita et obitu authoris) 700 pp. Open source Primary text 1847. Public domain 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. Intramural. Dort I.7 and WCF 3 are...
   • Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 3 vols. (trans. Giger, ed. Dennison; P&R) Francis Turretin 3 vols. Supplementary No link: find it in a library or bookstore. 1992-1997. Purchase (optional) 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. Intramural. Dort I.7 and WCF 3 are...
   • The Christian's Reasonable Service, vol. 1 (searchable PDF) Wilhelmus a Brakel (trans. Bartel Elshout) Open source Doctrinal 1992 (trans.). Free online Intramural. Witsius mediates between Cocceius and Voetius; Mastricht and Brakel are Voetian. The Cocceian abrogation scheme and Sabbath view were contested but never condemned by a synod. Teach Witsius as the mediating text in Loci II; flag Cocceian readings of the Sabbath against WCF 21.7. The Brakel PDFs were...
   • The Christian's Reasonable Service, vol. 3 (searchable PDF) Wilhelmus a Brakel (trans. Bartel Elshout) Open source Doctrinal 1992 (trans.). Free online Intramural. Witsius mediates between Cocceius and Voetius; Mastricht and Brakel are Voetian. The Cocceian abrogation scheme and Sabbath view were contested but never condemned by a synod. Teach Witsius as the mediating text in Loci II; flag Cocceian readings of the Sabbath against WCF 21.7. The Brakel PDFs were...
   • The Theology of Wilhelmus a Brakel: a deductive study (PRTS course outline) Open source Supplementary Free online
   • Theoretical-Practical Theology (English, 5+ vols.) Petrus van Mastricht (trans. Todd Rester, ed. Joel Beeke) Supplementary No link: find it in a library or bookstore. 2018-. Purchase (optional) Intramural. Witsius mediates between Cocceius and Voetius; Mastricht and Brakel are Voetian. The Cocceian abrogation scheme and Sabbath view were contested but never condemned by a synod. Teach Witsius as the mediating text in Loci II; flag Cocceian readings of the Sabbath against WCF 21.7.
   • Johannes Wollebius, Compendium (Beardslee anthology) Johannes Wollebius Open source Doctrinal 1965. Free online 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.
   • Institutio theologiae elencticae, vol. 1 (Loci 1-10: theology, Scripture, God, decrees, creation, providence, angels, sin, free will; Latin, Edinburgh 1847) Francis Turretin Open source Primary text 1847. Public domain
   • Institutio theologiae elencticae, vol. 2 (Loci 11-17: law, covenant of grace, Christ's person and offices, calling and faith, justification, sanctification; Latin, 1847) Francis Turretin (with Benedict Pictet's Oratio de vita et obitu authoris) Open source Primary text 1847. Public domain
   • Institutio theologiae elencticae, vol. 3 (Loci 18-20: the church, the sacraments, last things; Latin, 1847) Francis Turretin Open source Primary text 1847. Public domain
   • The Economy of the Covenants between God and Man, vol. 1 (Books 1-3 begin: covenant of works; covenant of grace, Father and Son, the Surety; the elect) Herman Witsius (English trans. William Crookshank) Open source Primary text 1803. Public domain
   • The Economy of the Covenants between God and Man, vol. 2 (Book 3 sanctification; Book 4 the Old and New Testament, the sacraments) Herman Witsius (English trans. William Crookshank) Open source Primary text 1803. Public domain
   • The Marrow of Sacred Divinity (English) William Ames Open source Primary text 1639. Public domain
   • Guiliel Amesii Medulla theologica (Latin, 1656) William Ames Open source Primary text 1656. Public domain
   • Theoretico-practica theologia, tomus primus (Latin, 1724) Petrus van Mastricht Open source Primary text 1724. Public domain
   • A Treatise on Regeneration (English, New Haven 1769) Petrus van Mastricht (translated from the Theoretico-practica) Open source Primary text 1769. Public domain
   • Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 3 vols. (trans. George Musgrave Giger, ed. James T. Dennison Jr.; P&R) Francis Turretin Supplementary No link: find it in a library or bookstore. 1992-1997. Purchase (optional)
   • Reformed Dogmatics: J. Wollebius, G. Voetius, F. Turretin (ed. John W. Beardslee III) Wollebius, Voetius and Turretin, selections; ed. Beardslee Open source Supplementary 1965. Purchase (optional)

   Total: 700 pages

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 40 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.

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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.