Our resident book hound, Ryan Noha, speaks about several rare books to be added to the Reformed Forum online store.

Select Titles:

• Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology (signed by the author)
• John Murray, Divorce (first edition, 1953)
• Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith (first edition, 1955)
• Geerhardus Vos, The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Code (first edition, 1886)

Participants: Camden Bucey, Ryan Noha

Today we speak about John Murray’s “The Attestation of Scripture,” a chapter in The Infallible Word. Scripture attests to its own character and authority. Being God’s Word and our ultimate authority, it could be no other way. Murray writes,

The doctrine of Scripture must be based upon the witness of Scripture just as any other doctrine in the whole realm of Christian confession.

The objective witness is that Scripture is authoritative by reason of the character it possesses as the infallible Word of God and this divine quality belongs to Scripture because it is the product of God’s creative breath through the mode of plenary inspiration by the Holy Spirit.

Participants: Camden Bucey, Glen Clary, Jim Cassidy

We discuss the latest issue of the Confessional Presbyterian Journal, which contains contributions from John Murray, Carl Trueman, Mark Jones, Glen Clary, and many others.

Articles

• “John Murray” by Danny E. Olinger
• “The Regulative Principle of Worship & Song in the Public Worship of God” by John Murray
• “Sanctification, the Law, and Good Works: Their Relationship in the American Reformed Tradition” by C. N. Willborn
• “The Church’s Care for the Penitent: Some Considerations” by Joseph E. Rolison
• “An Exposition of Psalm 68” by Benjamin Shaw
• “Strange Bedfellows: Darwinism and the Reformed Theological Tradition” by Mark Jones
• “The Christian Ministry in the Church: Its Reasons, Duration and Goal, and Practical Effects (Ephesians 4:11–16), with Special Emphasis on verse 12” by Richard C. Barcellos
• “Let’s Do Presbyterianism: The Trinitarian Foundations of Biblical Church Polity” by James J. Cassidy
• “James Bannerman’s The Church of Christ: A Tract for these Times” by Carl R. Trueman
• “Rites & Ceremonies in Public Worship” by James Bannerman
• “Holy Communion and Revivalism in the First Great Awakening” by Glen J. Clary
• “How Free Was Adam’s Will? Examining John Lafayette Girardeau’s Critique of Jonathan Edwards’ View of Adam’s Will Before the Fall” by Caleb Cangelosi
• “Which Comes First, the Intellect or the Will? Alvin Plantinga and Jonathan Edwards on a Perennial Question” by Jeffrey C. Waddington
• “William Perkins: Augustine’s Protégé & Father of Puritan Theology” by Barry Waugh
• “American Presbyterianism and the Religious Observance of Christmas” by Chris Coldwell and Andrew J. Webb
• Sic et Non. Views in Review: The Content of Song for the Public Worship of God

Reviews

• Reviews & Responses: Franciscus Junius, The Mosaic Polity (Jeffrey C. Waddington)
• Gerald Bray, God Has Spoken: A History of Christian Theology (Carl R. Trueman)
• Mees te Velde, et al., Correctly Handling the Word of Truth: Reformed Hermeneutics Today (Benjamin Shaw)
• N. T. Wright, Surprised By Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues (Jeffrey Stivason)
• Willem J. van Asselt et al., Synopsis Purioris Theologiae/Synopsis of a Purer Theology: Latin Text and English Translation—Volume 1 (Wes Bredenhof)

Other Departments

• Psallo: Psalm 92:1–15
• In Translatiōne: Johannes Wollebius’ Præcognita of Christian Theology from Compendium Theologiæ Christianæ
• Antiquary: Rediscovery of the Manuscripts of the Larger Catechism of Westminster Assembly of Divines; with extracts from The Larger Catechism of the Westminster Assembly: A Transcription of the Surviving Manuscripts with Notes.
• Bibliography
• The Editors and Contributing Editors In Brief:
  • The Sabbath vs. the Liturgical Calendar
  • Union with Christ and Mysticism

Related Episodes

• Jim Cassidy, “Let’s Do Presbyterianism: The Trinitarian Foundations for Biblical and Church Polity,” an address from our 2015 Theology Conference
• Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. and Lane Tipton, “The Eschatological Aspect of the Pauline Concept of the Spirit
  pre-conference discussion from the 2015 Theology Conference
• Lane Tipton, “Redemptive-Historical Hermeneutics, Divine Authorship, and the Christotelism Debate,” pre-conference discussion from the 2014 Theology Conference
• Jeff Waddington, “Which Comes First, the Intellect or the Will?“
• Darryl G. Hart, Glen Clary, John Terpstra, and Jim Cassidy, “Revivalism and Reformed Piety“

Participants: Camden Bucey, Jeff Waddington, Jim Cassidy