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Baking Clay Pots – Subtracting Water or Adding Hardness?
Louis Ruggiero (aka LouRugg) asked my friend Dr. White: Oh and by the way, when Turretinfan said that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart by taking away his common sense, I almost fell off my chair. Did he get that stuff from you, or did he make that one up on his own? I answer: One of…
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Fellow Limited Atonement Advocate
Today I happened to spot the blog of a fellow advocate of Limited Atonement. Mr. Josh Walker of the Bring the Books blog has a number of interesting posts on the Atonement. 1. Demonstrates one (of several) problems with the theory that Calvin held universal atonement. 2. Demonstrates that Charles Hodge held to Limited Atonement.…
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Amyraldianism and the Canons of Dordt
Someone raised the question of why I would think that the Amyraldian position is at odds with the teachings of the Synod of Dordt. The following hopefully explains. The Amyraldian position, per Dabney, is that “God decreed from eternity, to create the human race, to permit the fall; then in His infinite compassion, to send…
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Dabney on J.A. Alexander
Joshua Lim at Reformed Blogging has provided an interesting quotation from Dabney about Hodge (link). It’s worth noting that the idiom Dabney employs is a bit outdated and might seem confusing to modern readers. “Man of the closet” means someone who studies a lot, which we might today refer to as a person who lives…
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Southern Presbyterian Virtual Library
I suppose that the three great Southern Presbyterian Theologians may be identified as James Henley Thornwell, Robert Louis Dabney, and John Lafayette Girardeau. I have attempted to provide below as complete a virtual library of their works as can be accessed as complete works for free. Obviously, there are fragments from these men scattered in…
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Dabney Recommends for Sermon Preparation …
[After deducing the question from the text to be preached upon,] I proceed to study authorities, as time allows: first the Holy Scriptures, and then the soundest treatises, such as those of Turrettin and Owen. As I read I keep pencil and paper by me, and jot down everything which strikes me as possibly a…
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Further Response from Trey
Trey has (I think) clarified that he does not want to come down on the matter of the Atonement one way or another. “There are lots of folks who don’t want to come down on the matter one way or another. R. L. Dabney was one of those. David Ponter is also one. But like…
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The Deleterious Effect of Particularist/Universalist Propoganda
I stumbled across this shocking quotation: “Amazingly, Dabney, Charles Hodge, and William Shedd all distance themselves from theologians like Francis Turretin on the relationship between the decree of God and the cross of Christ, and even go so far as to explicitly reject key exegesis that underlies the “limited atonement” argument found in John Owen’s…
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What Dabney and I Believe about the Atonement
R. L. Dabney writes: If you were a soldier and had not deserted the colors of your country, an accepted substitute would free you from all service and punishment. You are guilty of desertion toward God, and are also bound to pay a service to which sin utterly disables you through your own folly and…