Samuel Rutherford’s Systematic Response to Arminianism

We welcome David Noe and Chad Van Dixhoorn to discuss the first volume in Reformation Heritage Books’ new edition of The Works of Samuel Rutherford, Volume 1: Arminianism: A Systematic and Theological Response. Noe translated the work from Latin, while Van Dixhoorn serves as general editor of the series and edited and introduced this volume.

The conversation explores Rutherford’s significance as a leading theologian of seventeenth-century Scotland and a commissioner to the Westminster Assembly. Rather than treating Arminianism as merely five disputed points of salvation, Rutherford examines it as a theological system reaching into the doctrine of God, divine simplicity, providence, human freedom, ecclesiology, and the sacraments.

The guests also discuss the challenges of translating scholastic Latin, recovering manuscripts, correcting citations, and preparing a projected twenty-volume edition that will make much of Rutherford’s work available to new readers.

Resources

• The Works of Samuel Rutherford, Volume 1: Arminianism: A Systematic and Theological Response
• Calvin’s Latin Bible
• Ad Navseam — Homer’s Odyssey Three Ways: Recent Translations by Anthony Verity, Emily Wilson …

Participants: Camden Bucey, Chad Van Dixhoorn, David Noe