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Resources on Francis Turretin
Found this at the Rutherford Tavern. Outline of the Institutes.
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Be patient with God–he’s learning, too!
Does God know all future contingencies? If yes, does he control them? If not, then we have just posited an area that is not God and is outside his control. The alternatives are Calvinism or...
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An apologist arose who knew not Turretin…
If you ever read the debates between Orthos, Catholics, and Reformed, you can always guess what the next argument will be. All players literally follow a script. I think one of the reasons Drake got...
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God’s Knowledge of Future Contingencies
Taken from Turretin in rough outline form: A thing may be contingent in two ways: by depending on God as first cause (as all of creation is thus contingent, since God didn’t have to create) by...
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Towards a Reformed Anthropology
I meant to include this in my post on Answering the Anchorites, but time prevented it. Often one hears that the Reformed doctrine of “Total Depravity” (TD) is completely alien to the early church....
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Freedom and concurrence
Concourse and concurrence: When God and man’s will overlap. The question is how may we best explain man having liberty while being under the control of God’s providence. Aquinas: second causes are...
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God and Sin, some Turretinian notes
Thesis: God does not merely permit sin (pace Pelagianism) nor does he efficiently produce it (as the Libertines suppose), but he efficaciously orders and directs it (I: 515). How God concurs to the act...
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Responding to Orthodox Bridge, part two (unconditional election)
His next section analyses the Reformed understanding of Unconditional Election. Much of it is simply a string of unobjectionable statements from Calvin. He then notes where many Eastern fathers...
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Reflecting on an old debate
About three or four years ago, “J.D.” issued a number of challenges to Reformed Theology that he figured were deal-breakers. They were along the lines of “if you believe this, then the following...
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Turretin on Original Sin
Some notes and a brief summary: Those who deny original sin have to explain why death is prevalent even among infants and imbeciles. Romans says the wages of sin is death. If the curse of death is...
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Review of Turretin, volume 1, part 1
Recent (that is, pre-1992 A.D.) Reformed theology can be sadly described as a generation arising “which knew not Turretin.” To paraphrase Galadriel in The Fellowship of the Ring: Some things that...
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Turretin on false worship
What is amazing about Turretin (and correspondingly frustrating about modern Reformed publishing) is that he anticipated all of the challenges the 21st century neo-Socinians would offer the Reformed...
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Turretin on worship, contd.
The objection arises concerning images that not all images in the Old Covenant were forbidden. Turretin responds that the law forbids not only latria, but doulia (I’ll explain the distinction:...
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Were the fathers in limbo?
Were the fathers (Old Testament saints) admitted into eternal joy upon death, or did they rest in some limbonic waiting place? The former we affirm; the latter we deny. Following Turretin (vol. 2:...
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Eschatological Presuppositions: Historicism
While Turretin’s argument that Jesus is the Messiah may not convince many Jews, he does have an interesting discussion of prophetic day = year theory. As such, he is within the Reformed spectrum and...
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Turretin on hypostatic union
These are more of summary notes of certain sections of Turretin, vol. 2. a composite union? This language is used both by the ancient fathers (rather unsoundly) and more recently by Reformed fathers....
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On the nature assumed
One of the tricky questions in Christology is to what extent Jesus assumed our human nature. The problem arises when we ask, “Did Christ assume the sinful part of our nature?” If we say yes, then it...
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Turretin on post New-Covenant, non-canonical festivals
(These–and others–are some old notes that I had on Turretin which I thought I had published) First of all, festivals properly so-called must be commanded by the divine word because God has the right of...
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A Convertskii Reading List for Those Leaving
I routinely accuse convertskii of not understanding Reformed theology before they get enamored with high church claims. It is only fair that I offer a survey of texts that one should know before...
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A kinder, gentler supralasparianism
The lapsarian debate has produced what Kant calls “an antimony:” two seemingly true positions which cancel out each other. The supralapsarian is correct in that what is first in intention is last in...
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