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 |
A Brief and Untechnical Statement of the Reformed Faith  |
B.B. Warfield |
Introduction to the Reformed Faith  |
John M. Frame (.pdf) |
Reformation Essentials - Five Pillars of the Reformation  |
Michael Horton - Solus Christus, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura, Soli Deo Gloria |
Prelapsarian Federalism and the Shape of Reformed Theology  |
David Gibson (pdf) |
Re-Presentation of Reformed Theology  |
Jules Grisham |
Was the Reformation a Tragedy?  |
Gerald Bray (pdf) |
How Many Points?  |
Richard A. Muller - Who qualifies as being Reformed? |
A Better Way: Reformation and Revival (.pdf)  |
Thomas J. Nettles |
A Personal Reformation: The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Spiritual Disciplines (.pdf)  |
Rev. Matthew Everhard, Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Brooksville Florida |
A Survey of the Reformed Faith  |
Andrew Sandlin |
Defining My Terms: Calvinist and Reformed  |
Tim Challies |
Doctrine of God  |
Roger Smalling |
Essays on Reformed Theology  |
Tim Challies |
Following Jesus: Always Reforming  |
Kirk Wellum |
History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (vol. 1)  |
J. H. Merle D'Aubigne |
Is the Reformed Church the True Church?  |
Francis Turretin |
Machen's Warrior Children  |
John Frame |
Machen's Warrior Children  |
John Frame |
Multiperspectivalism and the Reformed Faith (.pdf)  |
Vern Sheridan Poythress |
Propositions and Principles of Divinitie  |
Theodore Beza and Anthony Faius - Propounded and Disputed in the University of Geneva |
Recovering Reformation Theology  |
Bob DeWaay |
Reformation Basics  |
Frank Walker, John G. Reisinger, B. B. Warfield & R. Grossmann |
Reformation Theology  |
Reformation Theology Blog |
Reformation Theology Reading Guide  |
@Monergism |
Reformed Churches  |
Wikipedia |
Reformed Preaching and its Need Today  |
A.D. McIntosh |
Reformed Royalty: The Strength of Queen Jeanne d'Albret  |
Marilyn B. Manzer |
Reformed Theology  |
James Montgomery Boice |
Reformed Theology  |
James Montgomery Boice |
Reformed Theology and the Church of England (Series)  |
Chris Watson Lee |
Reformed Theology: The System Behind the Reformation of Zwingli and Calvin  |
David Bickel |
Reformed: A Definition  |
Tim Challies |
Remembering These Forty Years  |
John Murray |
Review of R. Scott Clark, Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice  |
John M. Frame |
Sermons from Charles Spurgeon  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from George Whitefield  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from John Calvin  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from John Flavel  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from John Owen  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from Thomas Goodwin  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
Sermons from Thomas Watson  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
The Generous Landowner  |
Jerry Bridges |
The Heart of the Reformed Faith  |
Stephen Rees |
The Heart of the Reformed Faith  |
Stephen Rees |
The Joy of the Reformed  |
Anthony Selvaggio |
The Ongoing Reformation: Recovering Essential Truths of the Faith  |
Doug V. Heck |
The Reformed and Post-Reformation Creeds and Councils  |
Charles R. Biggs |
The Reformed Believer's Foundation  |
Bob Burridge |
The Reformed Believer's God  |
Bob Burridge |
The Reformed Believer's Life  |
Bob Burridge |
The Reformed Faith  |
G. Van Baren |
The Reformed Faith: An Exposition Of The Westminster Confession Of Faith  |
Robert Shaw |
The Reformed Pastor  |
Fred Malone |
The Sermons of Martin Luther  |
Reformed Sermons Archive |
The Shepherd Knows His Sheep by Name  |
John Hendryx |
What Does It Mean that We Are Reformed?  |
Christ Covenant Reformed Church |
What Does it Mean to be Reformed Really?  |
C. Matthew McMahon |
What is Means to be Reformed  |
Byron Curtis |
What is Reformed Theology Anyway?  |
Dave Hatcher |
What is the Reformed Faith?  |
Michael S. Horton |
What Is the Reformed Faith?  |
Jack D. Kinneer |
What is the Reformed Faith? High Points of Calvinism  |
Orthodox Presbyterian Church |
What Would a New Reformation Look Like (.pdf)  |
Dr. Steve Lawson |
Who or What Defines “Reformed?”  |
R. Scott Clark |
Why (Some) Reformed People Are Such Jerks  |
R. Scott Clark |
Why Promote Reformation Theology  |
Don Matzat |