What is Reformed Theology?
Reformed theology...
...presupposes God's Word alone as our ultimate authority.
...stresses the sovereignty of God, that is, His reign over all things, meticulously determining (Eph 1:11)
all that comes to pass (i.e. God is never taken by surprise).
...ephasizes a Christ-Centered proclamation of the gospel, that salvation is wholly of God, by grace alone
through faith alone in Christ alone as revealed in the Scripture alone to the Glory of God alone.
...views the Bible as a redemptive-historical organic unfolding of revelation which is structured by three
covenants (redemption, works and grace).
It goes without saying that those in the Reformed Tradition hold to the doctrines of grace (the five points of Calvinism), man's helpless condition apart from Christ, the necessity of evangelism and the work of the Holy Spirit who (monergistically) quickens the dead to life through the preaching of the word as God turning their heart of stone to flesh, and opening their eyes to the excellencies of the gospel (uniting them to Christ). In other words, RT stresses the way the objective, written Word together with the inner, supernatural ministry of the Holy Spirit work together. For the Word without the illumination of the Holy Spirit remains a closed book. We (the church) cast forth the seed of the gospel and the Holy Spirit germinates it, so to speak, with the blood of Christ bringing forth life in people from every nation, tribe, language, and people (Rev 14:6). RT traces its historical and theological lineage back to the theology of Christ, Paul, Augustine and to the Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century.
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Institutes of the Christian Religion  |
John Calvin |
The Practical Implications of Calvinism  |
Al Martin - B. B. Warfield describes Calvinism as ‘that sight of the majesty of God that pervades all of life and all of experience’. In particular as it relates to the doctrine of salvation its glad confession is summarized in those three pregnan |
Three Pillars of the Reformed Faith (.pdf)  |
Jason A. Van Bemmel |
Reformation Essentials - Five Pillars of the Reformation  |
Michael Horton - Solus Christus, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, Soli Deo Gloria |
Introduction to the Reformed Faith  |
John M. Frame (.pdf) |
A Brief and Untechnical Statement of the Reformed Faith  |
B.B. Warfield |
Re-Presentation of Reformed Theology  |
Jules Grisham |
Prelapsarian Federalism and the Shape of Reformed Theology  |
David Gibson (pdf) |
Was the Reformation a Tragedy?  |
Gerald Bray (pdf) |
How Many Points?  |
Richard A. Muller - Who qualifies as being Reformed? |
Following Jesus: Always Reforming  |
Kirk Wellum |
Defining My Terms: Calvinist and Reformed  |
Tim Challies |
The Reformed Believer's Foundation  |
Bob Burridge |
The Reformed Believer's Life  |
Bob Burridge |
The Shepherd Knows His Sheep by Name  |
John Hendryx |
The Reformed Believer's God  |
Bob Burridge |
The Ongoing Reformation: Recovering Essential Truths of the Faith  |
Doug V. Heck |
Propositions and Principles of Divinitie  |
Theodore Beza and Anthony Faius - Propounded and Disputed in the University of Geneva |
What is the Reformed Faith?  |
Michael S. Horton |
Reformed Theology  |
James Montgomery Boice |
Reformation Basics  |
Frank Walker, John G. Reisinger, B. B. Warfield & R. Grossmann |
Reformed Theology: The System Behind the Reformation of Zwingli and Calvin  |
David Bickel |
What is Means to be Reformed  |
Byron Curtis |
Recovering Reformation Theology  |
Bob DeWaay |
Why Promote Reformation Theology  |
Don Matzat |
What Does it Mean to be Reformed Really?  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
Is the Reformed Church the True Church?  |
Francis Turretin |
Sermons from John Calvin  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from John Flavel  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from Thomas Goodwin  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
The Sermons of Martin Luther  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from John Owen  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from Charles Spurgeon  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from Thomas Watson  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from George Whitefield  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Reformation Theology  |
Reformation Theology Blog |
Reformed: A Definition  |
Tim Challies |
Machen's Warrior Children  |
John Frame |
Machen's Warrior Children  |
John Frame |
The Reformed and Post-Reformation Creeds and Councils  |
Charles R. Biggs |
Doctrine of God  |
Roger Smalling |
Reformed Churches  |
Wikipedia |
Remembering These Forty Years  |
John Murray |
A Survey of the Reformed Faith  |
Andrew Sandlin |
What Is the Reformed Faith?  |
Jack D. Kinneer |
The Heart of the Reformed Faith  |
Stephen Rees |
What Does It Mean that We Are Reformed?  |
Christ Covenant Reformed Church |
What is the Reformed Faith? High Points of Calvinism  |
Orthodox Presbyterian Church |
What is Reformed Theology Anyway?  |
Dave Hatcher |
The Reformed Faith: An Exposition Of The Westminster Confession Of Faith  |
Robert Shaw |
The Reformed Faith  |
G. Van Baren |
The Heart of the Reformed Faith  |
Stephen Rees |
Reformed Royalty: The Strength of Queen Jeanne d'Albret  |
Marilyn B. Manzer |
The Reformed Pastor  |
Fred Malone |
Reformed Preaching and its Need Today  |
A.D. McIntosh |
Reformation Theology Reading Guide  |
@Monergism |
Essays on Reformed Theology  |
Tim Challies |
Reformed Theology  |
James Montgomery Boice |
What Would a New Reformation Look Like (.pdf)  |
Dr. Steve Lawson |
Reformed Theology and the Church of England (Series)  |
Chris Watson Lee |
Who or What Defines “Reformed?”  |
R. Scott Clark |
A Personal Reformation: The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Spiritual Disciplines (.pdf)  |
Rev. Matthew Everhard, Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Brooksville Florida |
Why (Some) Reformed People Are Such Jerks  |
R. Scott Clark |
A Better Way: Reformation and Revival (.pdf)  |
Thomas J. Nettles |
The Generous Landowner  |
Jerry Bridges |
Multiperspectivalism and the Reformed Faith (.pdf)  |
Vern Sheridan Poythress |
The Joy of the Reformed  |
Anthony Selvaggio |
Review of R. Scott Clark, Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice  |
John M. Frame |