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Calvin vs.(?) Turretin on Inerrancy
The doctrine of Biblical inerrancy is sometimes associated with Francis Turretin (the real one, not me, his fan). There was an interesting article in the Autumn 2011 edition of “Foundations,” which addresses the question, “Did Turretin Depart from Calvin’s View on the Concept of Error in the Scriptures” (link to pdf of whole issue). The…
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The Real Francis Turretin on Faith and Reason
The question is not whether reason is the instrument by which or the medium through which we can be drawn to faith. For we acknowledge that reason can be both: the former indeed always and everywhere; the later with regard to presupposed articles. Rather the question is whether it is the first principle from which…
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The Real Francis Turretin on the Church in Relation to the Trinity
The church is the primary work of the holy Trinity, the object of Christ’s mediation and the subject of the application of his benefits. (cited as Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, trans. George Musgrave Giger, ed. James T Dennison (Phillipsburg, N.J.: P&R Pub., 1992), 3:1, at this link) To God be the Glory!
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The Real Francis Turretin on Faith and Reason
He does not therefore mean to take away reason entirely because grace does not destroy, but perfects nature. He only wishes it to serve and be a handmaid to faith and as such to obey, not to govern its mistress; that it may be in subjection and not entirely discarded, that it may be not…
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The Real Francis Turretin: The Supernatural Existence of Everything
“All things are properly said to be … supernaturally through infinite power (as from the terminus a quo and by the way of creation).” Cited generally as “Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, P & R.” (at The Lord God Exists). To God be the Glory!
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The Real Francis Turretin on Christ’s Teaching Role
“Christ is our only teacher (Matt. 23:8) in such a sense as that the ministry of the word is not thereby excluded, but necessarily included because now in it only he addresses us and by it instructs us. Christ is not set in opposition to the Scriptures; rather he is set in opposition to the…
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The Real Francis Turretin on Sin’s Relation to God
The Real Francis Turretin on sin’s relation to God: Theology treats sin not as belonging to God, but as holding certain relationship to Him (either that of opposite or contrary or as coming under His providence and justice); just as medicine treats of diseases and their remedies although its principle subject is man as curable.…
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Imputation Attested in the Early, Medieval, and even Counter-Reformation Era
Pastor David King was of great help in providing the following example of an early church Father, a medieval Father, a Doctor of the Church (according to Rome), and a cardinal of the Roman church, all affirming imputation in some form or other. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153): The fragrance of your wisdom comes to us…
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The Real Turretin on Covenant of Grace and Covenant of Works in the Mosaic Covenant
Kerux, Volume 24, Number 3, p. 76, FN70 (Dennison et al.): [O]ur editors have summarized Turretin as teaching that “the form of the Mosaic covenant was the covenant of works, but its substance was the covenant of grace” (12). This muddles Turretin’s otherwise careful distinctions regarding the administration of the covenant of grace under Moses,…