Reformed Forum

In this episode, we welcome Leonardo De Chirico to discuss his book Ancient Landmarks: An Evangelical’s Guide to Patristic and Medieval Thought . We consider how evangelicals can receive the riches of the ancient and medieval church without either dismissing the fathers or treating their work as an unquestionable authority. De Chirico commends an appreciative yet critical approach governed by the...

This is the first lesson in Dr. James J. Cassidy’s Reformed Academy course, Romans: God’s Worldwide Outreach. This lesson covers the following topics: 00:00 Theme: God’s Worldwide Outreach 03:20 Introduction: What is the Gospel? 07:51 The Gospel of God and the Son of God (Romans 1:1–7) 18:28 The Mission of the Gospel and the Power of God (Romans 1:8–17) 23:31 The Wrath of God Revealed Against Huma...

In this episode, we welcome Cornelis Venema to discuss Roots Renewed: Perspectives on the United Reformed Churches in North America (After Thirty Years) , a collection he edited on the history and identity of the United Reformed Churches in North America. We trace the Dutch and Christian Reformed histories that shaped the URCNA, consider its relationship with the Canadian Reformed Churches, and di...

This is the sixth lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide . It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 114–143 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology , addressing the following topics: 00:00 I...

Jim Cassidy joins Camden Bucey to discuss the Gospel of Mark and a newly recorded Reformed Academy course, The Gospel of Mark: A Study in the Kingdom . They consider how Mark identifies Jesus as the divine King and teaches the nature of his kingdom through a fast-moving account of Christ’s ministry. The conversation explores faith and union with Christ, Mark’s high Christology, exorcisms as signs...

This is the fifth lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide . It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 74–114 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology , addressing the following topics: 00:00 In...

Bradley G. Green joins Camden Bucey to discuss What Is Critical Theory?: A Concise Christian Analysis . They trace the Frankfurt School’s Marxist roots and explain why thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse turned from a narrowly economic account of oppression toward culture, institutions, authority, family, and religion. The conversation evaluates cr...

This is the fourth lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide . It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 62–74 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology , addressing the following topics: 00:00 In...

Kevin DeYoung joins Camden Bucey to discuss Church History for Everyone, Volume 1: The Story of Christianity from the Fall of Jerusalem to the Dawn of the Reformation . They consider why Christianity is inseparable from history and how the story of the church testifies to Christ’s promise to build and preserve his people by his Word and Spirit. The conversation explores how Christians can remember...

This is the third lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide . It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 41–62 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology , addressing the following topics: 00:00 Int...

Jared Poulton joins Camden Bucey to discuss Van Til’s Counseling Movement: A Critical Analysis of Jay Adams and Biblical Counseling . They trace how Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional apologetics supplied key theological instincts for Jay Adams and the modern biblical counseling movement, including the God-relatedness of every human problem, dependence upon divine revelation, and confidence in S...

On today’s episode of Theology Simply Profound, Rob and Bob continue to walk through the Book of Daniel. We discuss the Lord's response to his corporate confession of sin in chapter 9:1-19 wherein Gabriel flies in to provide "insight and understanding" in the form of the prophecy of the seventy weeks.

This is the second lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide . It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 31–41 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology , addressing the following topics: 00:00 In...

Hebrews never pits the covenants against one another as law versus gospel; it presents them as grace and grace—the same house, the same people, the same promise. Yet the old was always preparatory: shadow giving way to substance, promise to fulfillment. Marcus A. Mininger traces that organic development and shows why the unity of the one covenant is precisely what makes Hebrews’ warning so urgent....

Few passages have unsettled readers like Hebrews’ warning that it is “impossible … to restore again to repentance” those who fall away. Does it teach a sin beyond forgiveness? Marcus A. Mininger clears away the common misreadings and names the real danger the author confronts: the temptation to abandon Christ and re-lay a foundation in the old covenant alone. The warning, rightly heard, is not abo...

A greater Joshua has come. Benjamin L. Gladd takes another look at Jesus’s exorcisms, reading them against the Old Testament backdrop of Israel’s conquest. Where Joshua led a people into an earthly rest by the sword, Christ leads his people into a greater rest by the Spirit and the word, defeating the powers that held them captive. The kingdom does not advance by force but by the triumph of the on...

When does the long-promised restoration of Israel take place? G. K. Beale gives particular attention to Acts 1:8 and its use of the Old Testament and argues that the restoration is already under way in the church's Spirit-empowered witness to the nations. God fulfills his covenant promises to Israel in Christ and carries them to the ends of the earth, as the one Savior gathers one people to himsel...

Mark Gilbert joins Camden Bucey to examine what Protestants and Roman Catholics mean when they speak of Christian unity. Drawing on Gilbert’s conversion from Roman Catholicism, they contrast a unity grounded in the Spirit’s work through the Word with Rome’s institutional claim to mediate grace and gather humanity into one visible communion. The conversation turns to Vatican II and Karl Rahner’s do...

The covenant of grace has its source in eternity, in the covenant of redemption: the eternal agreement of Father, Son, and Spirit to save a people. In "Before the Foundation of the World," Camden Bucey traces the historical covenant of grace back to that eternal counsel. Following Herman Bavinck, he shows that the covenant revealed in time rests on an unchanging foundation in the counsel of the tr...

This is the first lesson in Dr. Camden M. Bucey and Dr. Marcus Mininger’s Reformed Academy course, Resurrection and Redemption: A Reader’s Guide . It was originally recorded for one of Reformed Forum’s International Cohort Reading Groups. This lesson covers pages 5–30 of Richard B. Gaffin Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology , addressing the following topics: 00:00 Intr...

We welcome Eli Ayala , host of Revealed Apologetics , to discuss Christian apologetics in the digital public square. Drawing an analogy to the Areopagus of Acts 17, Camden Bucey and Ayala consider YouTube’s remarkable reach, its dangers, the spiritual dimension of apologetics, the union of biblical content and method, current movements in online apologetics, and the pastoral task of guiding young...

On today’s episode of Theology Simply Profound, Rob and Bob continue to walk through the Book of Daniel. We discuss Daniel's corporate prayer of confession in chapter 9. Mentioned in this episode: Christ the Center 1000 Christ the Center 1000

This is the fifth lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton’s Reformed Academy course, Christology I: The Person of Christ . This lesson covers the following topics: 00:00 Introduction to Modern Christological Errors 00:57 Liberal Historicism and Schleiermacher 11:24 Karl Barth’s Higher-Order Historicism 27:05 Traditional Kenotic Christology 38:35 Bruce McCormack’s Actualized Kenotic Christology 51:47 Charles...

We welcome Andrea Ferrari to discuss his book The Fall and Redemption of Conscience: A Reformed Biblical Theology . Ferrari, pastor of the Chiesa Riformata di Perugia in Italy, explains why conscience has received comparatively little attention in modern Protestant theology and considers the influence of psychology, Karl Barth, John Webster, and John Calvin on contemporary accounts of conscience....

This is the fourth lesson in Dr. Lane G. Tipton’s Reformed Academy course, Christology I: The Person of Christ . This lesson covers the following topics: 00:00 Introduction to Orthodox Christology 02:19 Westminster Confession of Faith 8.2 06:27 The Son’s Assumption of a True Human Nature 13:55 The Hypostatic Union 17:30 Ancient Christological Errors 18:17 Arianism 25:13 Docetism 28:29 Nestorianism...