Tag Archives: covenant of redemption

Review: An Everlasting Covenant (Kamphuis)

Posted on September 23, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Kamphuis, J. An Everlasting Covenant. Launceston, Australia: Publication Organization of the Free Reformed Churches of Australia, 1985. This summarizes the fallout between the true, Schilderite take on theology, and the post-Kuyperian subjectivism.  It differs from other defenses of Schilder, however, in … Continue reading →

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Review: Horton, Covenant and Salvation

Posted on July 12, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Horton attempts to give a full-orbed defense of Reformed soteriology, utilizing current scholarship, identifying potential weaknesses, and communicating this in a new and cogent manner. And he has largely succeeded. Similar to other projects, Horton places salvation within a covenantal … Continue reading →

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Study notes on Caspar Olevian and Substance

Posted on July 11, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

I will write a formal review later.  R. Scott Clark has several fascinating sections reconstructing German Calvinism in the 16th century, along with rebutting the Heppe-thesis and such.  The review will cover those parts. This book is so useful on … Continue reading →

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Review: Richard Muller’s Triunity of God

Posted on July 6, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Muller, Richard.  The Triunity of God. Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, volume 4.  Grand Rapids: MI, Baker Academic. Given that there aren’t many specifically Reformed constructions of Trinitarianism, I would say that this book fills a woeful lacuna.  However, since it has … Continue reading →

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Notes on Muller’s PRRD vol 4

Posted on July 6, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Roscellin: confirmed anti-realist.  This view led him to declare that every existent thing is a unique individual: so-called universals are “mere words.” (Muller 26).   The problem with Boethuis’s definition of person:   The definition ultimately poses all manner of problems … Continue reading →

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The Economy of the Covenants (Witsius)

Posted on July 1, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

This is the classic statement of Covenant Theology at the end of the 17th Century.  Witsius steers an irenic course between Voetsius and Cocceius. The first volume deals with Covenant Theology proper while the second volume analyzes the various types … Continue reading →

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Review: Buchanan, Justification

Posted on June 1, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

While dated in some respects, this volume has outstanding discussions of several knotty problems.  The first section is an historical overview.  The real value of that is in the post-Reformation discussions (especially relating to the church of England).  A few … Continue reading →

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Horton on Radical Orthodoxy

Posted on May 23, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Horton, Michael.  Covenant and Salvation. Covenantal Ontology: The pactum salutis is the intra-Trinitarian covenant made in eternity. It is realized in the biblical covenants. See also pp. 182-186. Horton notes that Radical Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Roman Catholicism presuppose something along … Continue reading →

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Witsius, Notes: Vol 1

Posted on May 22, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

This is mainly Books 1-3 of The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man (Reformation Heritage reprint) Book 1 Chapter 1: Covenants in General Generally, covenants signify a mutual agreement between parties, with respect to something (43).  A covenant of … Continue reading →

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Our Covenant Heritage: The Covenanters struggle for unity

Posted on September 4, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

Moore, Edwin Nisbet.  Mentor Publishing. 2000. Nisbet Moore sets the stage with a brief of review of the First and Second Reformations in Scotland. Moore flies through the events of the English Civil War and the accession of the pervert … Continue reading →

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