“Absolute” Immutability Examined

God’s “absolute” immutability is, indeed, hard to understand. But, then, we’re talking about God! This understanding is not overly dependent upon Greek thought and has always held to some notion of divine ability to relate to creation, which ability itself is mysterious.

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The Best Yet

The scholastic theologians after the Reformation produced the best prolegomena to be found. Are you at all familiar with it?

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Knowledge of God?

A glimpse of the discussion about how our language and knowledge relates to God’s knowledge of himself. I think you’ll dig it.

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Reformed Catholicism – 2

Protestantism, at its best, is not a revolt against tradition, as such. We participate in the great conversation, but weigh it all in the balance of the Scripture.

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Reformed Doctrine, Medieval Mold

How is one to teach theology in the schools? This was a serious question that, after the Reformation, needed to be answered. The answer, in large part, was found in the Middle Ages.

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The Breadth and Breakdown of Orthodoxy

The breadth of Reformed orthodoxy is really quite startling, but it went out with a whimper.

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The Debates of High Orthodoxy

The Reformed orthodox did battle both with other confessional forms of Christianity and with themselves. Here are some of the issues.

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Early Reformed Systematization

Reformed Protestants (more than Lutherans), in the first generation, pressed toward the development of a theological system founded specifically upon the Bible.

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A Systematic Reformation?

One common conception about the Reformation and the succeeding generations of Protestant theologians is that the Reformation was largely an unsystematic theological revolt, while the succeeding generations of theologians were engaged in the organization of vast and detailed theological systems. Now, there’s some truth in that, but there’s also a tendency to read it all [...]

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Through Our Fathers

Muller brings up two things in particular that I think are important to understanding the Reformed scholastics. 1) Reformed scholasticism is “the form of theological system in and through which modern Protestantism has received most of its doctrinal principles and definitions” (Muller, PRRD, 1:37). This highly-technical, academic theology did exactly what it was intended to [...]

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