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19 apr 2024 · A survey of the major doctrines of the Christian faith. First semester investigates the biblical data on Scripture, God, man and Christ. Second semester investigates the biblical data on the Holy Spirit, salvation, Church and last things. The Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms serve as guidelines and resources. 3 hours.
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What follows is an account of the modernist-fundamentalist controversy that used to be on the First Presbyterian Church (NYC) website. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, you can still find it. But now you have Old… More
Statues of William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox, influential theologians in developing the Reformed faith, at the Reformation Wall in Geneva. Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
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As with many things, however, conversion is not as simple as it seems at first. Embedded in this concept are connections to several Christian doctrines. The doctrine of conversiontouches the doctrines of effectual calling, regeneration, sanctification, and repentance.
Since the middle of the nineteenth century it has been the convention of many evangelicals to think and speak of conversion as something that takes place in a single, critical event. This approach to conversion is so widely held that scholars speak of a “conversionist” approach to subjects. For example, writers from this tradition look for external...
The principal Old Testament word for conversion (Shub), in its most basic usage, means “to return” or “to go back.” It can signal the sense of changing one’s mind and in some forms can refer to being brought back to a place or a state. First Kings 8:48 is a clear example the use of this verb to mean repentance, i.e., turning away from sin and turni...
We might distinguish between two types of conversions in Scripture: external and internal. True conversion is the work of God’s sovereign grace in the human heart. In the Heidelberg Catechism the Reformed Churches equated “true repentance” with “conversion” (Heidelberg Catechism, 88): In how many things does true repentance or conversion consist? I...
The biblical, ancient Christian, and Reformation understanding of conversion is at odds with the model of conversion that has predominated among contemporary evangelicals. That model was fueled by the Pietistic reaction to a perceived spiritual coldness in the state churches in Europe. Immigrants to the New World brought that reaction with them. Th...
OldLife.org is the latest addition to the Reformed Forum network. Darryl Hart and John Muether founded the Old Life Theological Society several years ago to point the way back to the health and vigor of historic Reformed Protestantism.
14 apr 2019 · Reformed theology informs our faith with centuries-old Christian doctrinal standards such as the Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Canons of Dort, the Westminster Confession and Catechisms, and the Second London Baptist Confession.
