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Prolegomena I
Lesson 1: Systematic Theology
Henry, Carl F. H. God, Revelation and Authority. Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1976-83. "The Method and Criteria of Theology (II): The Role of Reason, Scripture, Consistency and Coherence." In vol. 1, God Who Speaks and Shows: Preliminary Considerations, 225-44.
Muller, Richard A. Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1987-. "Orthodoxy and Scholasticism in Protestant Thought," "The Reformation and Theological System," "The Rise of Orthodoxy and the Structures of Protestant Scholastic Theology," "Archetypal and Ectypal Theology," "Theology As Communicated to Men," "Theology: Theoretical or Practical?," "Fundamental Articles and Basic Principles of Theology." In vol. 1, Prolegomena to Theology, 13-40, 123-36, 153-66, 215-26, 277-311.
*Murray, John. "Systematic Theology." In Collected Writings of John Murray, 4:1-21. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976-82.
Warfield, Benjamin B. "The Right of Systematic Theology." In Selected Shorter Writings of Benjamin B. Warfield, 2:219-79. Phillipsburg, N. J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1970-73.
*Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge. The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield. 1927-32. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981. "The Idea of Systematic Theology," "The Task and Method of Systematic Theology." In vol. 9, Studies in Theology, 49-105.
Lesson 2: General Revelation
*Berkouwer, G. C. General Revelation, 9-57, 117-72, 187-206. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1955.
*Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion I.i-v (1:35-69). Edited by John T. McNeill, translated by Ford Lewis Battles. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960.
Chalmers, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Chalmers. Glasgow: William Collins, 1835-42. Paragraphs 28-44 of "On the Defects and the Uses of Natural Theology," in vol. 2, On Natural Theology, 398-420.
Cunningham, William. Theological Lectures, 101-113. London: James Nisbet and Company, 1878.
Demarest, Bruce A. General Revelation: Historical Views and Contemporary Issues, 227-47. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1982.
Dowey, Edward A. "Conscience." In The Knowledge of God in Calvin's Theology, 56-72. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.
*Helm, Paul. "Calvin and Natural Law." Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 2(1984):5-22.
Hodge, Charles. "The Origin of the Idea of God." In Systematic Theology, 1:191-203. 1871. Reprint. London: James Clarke and Company, 1960.
Murray, John. The Epistle to the Romans, 1:37-40, 50-53, 72-76 (on Romans 1:19-20, 29-32, 2:14-15). London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1967.
*Turretin, Francis. "Whether natural theology may be granted," "Is natural theology sufficient for salvation; or is there a common religion by which all promiscuously may be saved?" In Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 1:6-16. Translated by George Musgrave Giger. Phillipsburg, N. J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1992-.
Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge. The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield. 1927-32. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981. Vol. 5, Calvin and Calvinism, "Calvin's Doctrine of the Knowledge of God," 29-48.
Westminster Confession of Faith I.i, vi, X.iv, XX.iv, XXI.i, vii; Larger Catechism 2, 60, 151.
Lesson 3: Inspiration of Scripture
Clark, Gordon H. "Inspiration and Language." In Religion, Reason and Revelation, 111-50. Nutley, N. J.: Craig Press, 1978.
*Hodge, A. A., and Warfield, Benjamin B. "Inspiration." The Princeton Defense of Plenary Verbal Inspiration, edited by Mark A. Noll, 40-75. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1988. Reprinted from Presbyterian Review 2(1881):225-60. Also reprinted in Inspiration, with an introduction by Roger Nicole, vii-xiv, 5-71. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1979.
Nicole, Roger. "The Biblical Concept of Truth." In Scripture and Truth, edited by D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge, 287-98. 1983. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1992.
*Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge. The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield. 1927-32. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981. Vol. 1, Revelation and Inspiration, v-ix, 3-391. Vol. 6, The Westminster Assembly and Its Work, "The Westminster Doctrine of Holy Scripture," 201-209.
Westminster Confession of Faith I.i.
Young, Edward J. "What is Inerrancy?" In Thy Word is Truth: Some Thoughts on the Biblical Doctrine of Inspiration, 113-59. London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1963.
Lesson 4: Canon
Beckwith, Roger. "Introduction," "The Fact of the Canon," (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of "The Identity of the Canonical Books: The Books Excluded As Uncanonical." In The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church, 1-15, 63-104, 366-408, 419-33. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1986.
*Ridderbos, Herman N. "The Canon of the New Testament." In Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures, 1-47. Phillipsburg, N. J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1988.
Stonehouse, N. B. "The Authority of the New Testament." In The Infallible Word, edited by N. B. Stonehouse and Paul Woolley, 92-140. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1946.
Westminster Confession of Faith I.ii-iii.
*Young, Edward J. "The Authority of the Old Testament." In The Infallible Word, edited by N. B. Stonehouse and Paul Woolley, 55-91. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1946.
Lesson 5: Authority of Scripture
*Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion I.vi-ix (1:69-96). Edited by John T. McNeill, translated by Ford Lewis Battles. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960.
Helm, Paul. "Revelation and Objectivity." In The Divine Revelation, 37-55. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1982.
*Murray, John. The Infallible Word, edited by N. B. Stonehouse and Paul Woolley, "The Attestation of Scripture," 1-42. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1946.
Murray, John. Collected Writings of John Murray, "Calvin and the Authority of Scripture," 4:176-83. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976-82.
Packer, J. I. "Authority." In 'Fundamentalism' and the Word of God, 41-74. London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1958.
*Turretin, Francis. "From what source does the divine authority of the Scriptures become known to us?" In Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 1:85-94. Translated by George Musgrave Giger. Phillipsburg, N. J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1992-.
Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge. The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield. 1927-32. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981. Vol. 4, Studies in Tertullian and Augustine, second article of "Augustine's Doctrine of Knowledge and Authority," 178-225. Vol. 6, The Westminster Assembly and Its Work, "The Westminster Doctrine of Holy Scripture," 155-201, 210-24.
Westminster Confession of Faith I.iv-v; Larger Catechism 4.
*Whitaker, William. A Disputation On Holy Scripture. "Concerning the Authority of Scripture," 275-300, 327-58. Translated by William Fitzgerald. The Parker Society. Cambridge: The University Press, 1849.
Lesson 6: Internal Testimony of the Holy Spirit
Cunningham, William. "Testimony of the Spirit, Following the Confession of Faith." Theological Lectures, 320-30. London: James Nisbet and Company, 1878.
Halyburton, Thomas. Propositions I-XII of "An Essay Concerning the Nature of Faith, or the Ground Upon Which Faith Assents to the Scriptures." In The Works of Thomas Halyburton, 526-46. Edited by Robert Burns. London: Thomas Tegg and Son, 1835.
*Murray, John. The Infallible Word, edited by N. B. Stonehouse and Paul Woolley, "The Attestation of Scripture," 42-54. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1946.
Murray, John. Collected Writings of John Murray, "Calvin and the Authority of Scripture," 4:183-90. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976-82.
*Owen, John. "The Reason of Faith." In The Works of John Owen, 4:3-115. Chapters II and IV-VI in "Of the Divine Original, Authority, Self-Evidencing Light, and Power of the Scriptures," 16:306-312, 318-43. Edited by William H. Goold. 1850-53. Reprint. London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1965-68.
*Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge. The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield. 1927-32. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981. Vol. 5, Calvin and Calvinism, "Calvin's Doctrine of the Knowledge of God," 60-130.
Westminster Confession of Faith I.v; Larger Catechism 4.
Lesson 7: Perspicuity and Sufficiency of Scripture
Cunningham, William. "Romanist Theory of Development." In Discussions of Church Principles: Popish, Erastian, and Presbyterian, 35-77. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1863.
Cunningham, William. Theological Lectures, 492-515. London: James Nisbet and Company, 1878.
*Helm, Paul. "Evolution, Tradition and Development." In The Divine Revelation, 89-103. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1982.
Martin, Hugh. "The Conjunction of the Presence and the History," "The Presence - By the Spirit," "The Presence - In the History." In Christ's Presence in the Gospel History, 9-41. Edinburgh: John MacLaren, 1865.
*Murray, John. "The Finality and Sufficiency of Scripture." In Collected Writings of John Murray, 1:16-22. "Tradition: Romish and Protestant," 4:264-73. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976-82.
*Turretin, Francis. "The Perfection of the Scriptures," "The Perspicuity of the Scriptures." In Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 1:134-47. Translated by George Musgrave Giger. Phillipsburg, N. J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1992-.
*Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge. The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield. 1927-32. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981. Vol. 6, The Westminster Assembly and Its Work, "The Westminster Doctrine of Holy Scripture," 224-35.
Westminster Confession of Faith I.vi-vii, XVI.i, XX.ii, XXI.i, XXXI.iii; Larger Catechism 3, 108-109; Shorter Catechism 2.
Whitaker, William. A Disputation On Holy Scripture. "Concerning the Perfection of Scripture, Against Human Traditions," 513-24. Translated by William Fitzgerald. The Parker Society. Cambridge: The University Press, 1849.
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Prolegomena II