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Darryl G. Hart/July 27, 2022
What Is Reformed Militancy?
Reformed militancy is something that comes up when you consider J. Gresham Machen because he was known to be a fighter. He defended it and militancy for noble, worthwhile causes …
Lane Tipton/July 22, 2022
What Is the Deeper Modernist Conception?
You can contrast the deeper Modernist conception of Karl Barth to the deeper Protestant conception of Vos and the deeper Catholic conception of Aquinas. For Vos, Adam comes from God, …
Camden M. Bucey/July 14, 2022
What Is the Organic Unity of the Scriptures?
At Reformed Forum we often speak about the organic unity of the Scriptures. This is the basic idea that the Old Testament is naturally related to the New Testament. I’m …
Darryl G. Hart/July 7, 2022
What Was the Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy?
The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy occurred in the 1920s. When I teach it, I typically talk about the social aspects of it, the high points being the Scopes Trial of 1925 and …
Lane Tipton/June 30, 2022
What Is the Deeper Catholic Conception?
The deeper Catholic conception, or traditional Roman Catholic conception, is a concept in conjunction with and in contrast to the deeper Protestant conception. The deeper Catholic conception is the notion …
Camden M. Bucey/June 24, 2022
What Are the Main Covenants?
When I was first introduced to Reformed covenant theology, things were really confusing. I kept trying to figure out how many covenants there were and how they related to one …
Barry Waugh/June 21, 2022
A Record of B. B. Warfield’s Book Reviews
The more than two-hundred-fifty-page PDF document available for download at the end of this introduction is a table that includes seven columns of information about each of 1268 book reviews …
Darryl G. Hart/June 16, 2022
What Was the Old School-New School Controversy?
Dr. D. G. Hart speaks about the Old School-New School Controversy in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, which lasted from 1837 to 1870 in the North.
Lane Tipton/June 8, 2022
What Is the Deeper Protestant Conception?
In Reformed Dogmatics 2:13–15, Geerhardus Vos coined a phrase for the image of God, entitled “the deeper Protestant conception.” When God formed Adam from the dust of the earth in …
Darryl G. Hart/June 2, 2022
What Was the Old Side/New Side Controversy?
The Old Side/New Side controversy occurred in colonial presbyterianism between 1741 and 1758 with a couple of stages in between. It was a controversy that grew out of the first—I …
Lane G. Tipton/May 26, 2022
What Is Mutualism or Correlativism?
Mutualism or correlativism are virtual synonyms. Cornelius Van Til, a prominent twentieth-century Reformed theologian, apologist, Orthodox Presbyterian, and founding member of Westminster Theological Seminary, taught that God and the creature …
Lane G. Tipton/May 26, 2022
What Is the Creator-Creature Distinction?
In biblical teaching summarized by Reformed theology, the creator-creature distinction brings into view the absolute ontological difference between the Triune God and the creature. The Triune God is infinite, eternal, …
Jim Cassidy/May 19, 2022
Faculty Focus Interview with Jim Cassidy
This the first installment of a quarterly series of interviews highlighting the Lord’s work in the lives and ministries of our Reformed Forum faculty. Up first is Jim Cassidy, president …
Lane Tipton/April 15, 2022
Bavinck on the “Implanted” Knowledge of God
A listener of Christ the Center raised a useful question about Bavinck, noting that he denies the speculative conception of “innate ideas” in Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 2, pp. 69–73 and wondered what …
Daniel Ragusa/February 24, 2022
The Apologetic Method of Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831)
The Dutch Reformed thinker and poet Willem Bilderdijk recalls in a letter to a friend in 1822 what his former teacher once said: “When examining the truth of Christianity, you …
