Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland
Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775
Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland
Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567351418
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 20/11/2014
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Recent decades have witnessed much scholarly reassessment of late-sixteenth through eighteenth-century Reformed theology. It was common to view the theology of this period—typically labelled ‘orthodoxy’—as sterile, speculative, and rationalistic, and to represent it as significantly discontinuous with the more humanistic, practical, and biblical thought of the early reformers. Recent scholars have taken a more balanced approach, examining orthodoxy on its own terms and subsequently highlighting points of continuity between orthodoxy and both Reformation and pre-Reformation theologies, in terms of form as well as content.
Until now Scottish theology and theologians have figured relatively minimally in works reassessing orthodoxy, and thus many of the older stereotypes concerning post-Reformation Reformed theology in a Scottish context persist. This collection of essays aims to redress that failure by purposely examining post-Reformation Scottish theology/theologians through a lens provided by the gains made in recent scholarly evaluations of Reformed orthodoxy, and by highlighting, in that process, the significant contribution which Scottish divines of the orthodox era made to Reformed theology as an international intellectual phenomenon.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Carl Trueman, Westminster Theological Seminary, USA
Part 1: Early Reformed Orthodoxy (c.1560-c.1640)
Chapter 1: Knox versus the Knoxians? Predestination in John Knox and Seventeenth-Century Federal Theology
Donald John MacLean, Wales Evangelical School of Theology, UK
Andrew Melville and Christian Hebraism: The Humanist Legacy of a Renaissance
Scholar
Ernest R. Holloway III, Westminster Theological Seminary, USA
The Eternal Decree in the Incarnate Son: Robert Rollock on the Relationship between Christ and Election
Brannon Ellis, Acquisitions Editor for Lexham Press, USA
Where Was Your Church Before Luther? History and Catholicity in Early Seventeenth-Century Aberdonian Theology
Nicholas Thompson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Alexander Henderson: Reformed Orthodoxy and Constitutional Crisis in Scotland
Donald Macleod, Free Church College, UK
Scottish Hypothetical Universalism: Robert Baron on God’s Love and Christ’s Death for All
Aaron Clay Denlinger, Reformation Bible College, USA
Part 2: High Reformed Orthodoxy (c.1640-c.1690)
Samuel Rutherford’s Euthyphro Dilemma: A Reformed Perspective on the Scholastic Natural Law Tradition
Simon J. G. Burton, University of Warsaw, Poland
Samuel Rutherford on the Divine Origin of Possibility
Aza Goudriaan, University of the Free State, South Africa
Clavis Cantici: A ‘Key’ to the Reformation in Early Modern Scotland?
Guy M. Richard, Senior Minister of First Presbyterian Church, USA
Scotland and Saumur: The Intellectual Legacy of John Cameron in Seventeenth-Century France
Albert Gootjes, Calvin Theological Seminary, USA
John Calvin and John Brown of Wamphray on Justification
Joel R. Beeke, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, USA
Part 3: Late Reformed Orthodoxy (c.1690 onwards)
Thomas Halyburton and John Locke on the Grounding of Faith in Scripture
Paul Helm, Regent College, Canada
The Rational Defence and Exposition of Christianity: Thomas Blackwell and Scottish Orthodoxy in the Early Eighteenth Century
Richard A. Muller, Calvin Theological Seminary, USA
The Act or Habit of Faith? Alexander Comrie’s Interpretation of Heidelberg Catechism Question 20
Gerrit A. van den Brink, Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven, Belgium
Bibliography
Index
An excellent collection ... This volume successfully illuminates various aspects of Scottish Reformed Orthodoxy ... [and] will undoubtedly serve as a key reference point for future discussions about theology in the early modern Scotland. * The Expository Times * This impressive book is a commendable achievement by all involved. * Scottish Journal of Theology * Just as the older scholarship set Calvin against his European and English Reformed successors, so too an influential school of thought has sought to set the Scottish Reformation against Scottish Reformed orthodoxy. This fascinating volume, composed of an impressive collection of essays by both younger and senior scholars in the field, demonstrates once again that the older paradigm should be doubted. -- R. Scott Clark, Westminster Seminary California, USA Clear, interesting, and persuasive ... A significant volume focused on an important but, until recently, neglected part of the history of Scottish theology. I found reading the book quite an education. * Journal of Reformed Theology *
