Introduction to the Reformed Tradition

A concise and readable study for laypersons and clergy alike, this book is indispensable for all informed people in many different confessional communities. With the passion of one who not only observes but believes, John Leith touches on all aspects of Reformed history, theology, polity, liturgy, and Christian culture with a balance of enthusiasm and critical judgment that always rings true.

Traditioning the Faith

17

(15)

The Tradition and the Traditions

17

(7)

The living tradition

17

(2)

The human tradition

19

(1)

Tradition as the work of the Holy Spirit

19

(1)

Jesus Christ as the tradition

20

(2)

The traditions

22

(2)

A Secular and Pluralistic Society

24

(4)

The Open Tradition

28

(4)

The Reformed Churches

32

(38)

The Beginnings

33

(1)

The Reformation in Switzerland

33

(4)

Europe

37

(4)

Great Britain

41

(3)

The United States and Canada

44

(6)

Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa

50

(1)

The Reformed Tradition and the Younger Churches

50

(3)

The Ecumenical Movement

53

(17)

Membership of Reformed Churches

56

(12)

Diagram of Presbyterian Churches in Scotland

68

(1)

Diagram of Presbyterian Churches in the United States

69

(1)

The Ethos of the Reformed Tradition

70

(19)

The Majesty and the Praise of God

70

(4)

The Polemic Against Idolatry

74

(1)

The Working Out of the Divine Purposes in History

75

(4)

Ethics, a Life of Holiness

79

(1)

The Life of the Mind as the Service of God

80

(2)

Preaching

82

(2)

The Organized Church and Pastoral Care

84

(1)

The Disciplined Life

85

(2)

Simplicity

87

(2)

Theology and the Reformed Tradition

89

(56)

What is Theology?

91

(5)

Characteristics of Reformed Theology

96

(16)

A theology of the holy catholic church

96

(1)

A theocentric theology

97

(3)

A theology of the Bible

100

(3)

Predestination

103

(5)

The Distinction between Creator and creature

108

(1)

Theology as a practical science

109

(2)

Theology as wisdom

111

(1)

The Development of Reformed Theology

112

(15)

The nature of theological change

112

(3)

Classical reformed theology, 1517--1564

115

(2)

Protestant scholasticism, 1564--1775

117

(3)

The crisis of the enlightenment and the nineteenth century, 1775--1918

120

(4)

The new Reformation theology, 1918--1955

124

(2)

A time of theological puzzlement and experimentation, 1955-forward

126

(1)

Representative Theologians

127

(6)

The Institutes of the Christian Religion

127

(1)

John Calvin

The Marrow of Theology

128

(1)

William Ames

Institutio Theologiae Elenctiae

128

(1)

Francis Turretin

Systematic Theology

129

(1)

Charles Hodge

Christian Theology in Outline

130

(1)

William Adams Brown

Church Dogmatics

131

(1)

Karl Barth

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892--1971) and H. Richard Niebuhr (1894--1962)

132

(1)

Reformed Confessions

133

(12)

Representative Reformed Systematic Theologies

138

(2)

Representative Reformed Theologies

140

(3)

Representative Biblical Studies by Reformed Scholars

143

(1)

Representative Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

144

(1)

Polity and the Reformed Tradition

145

(29)

The Significance of Polity

145

(2)

The Subordination of Polity to the Gospel

147

(1)

The One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church

148

(4)

Reformed Polities

152

(1)

Calvin's Polity

152

(3)

Presbyterianism

155

(9)

Episcopacy

164

(4)

Congregationalism

168

(6)

Reformed Polities

172

(2)

Liturgy and the Reformed Tradition

174

(24)

John Calvin and Karl Barth on Worship

175

(5)

Reformed Liturgies

180

(1)

Calvin's Liturgy of 1545

181

(7)

Farel's Liturgy

188

(2)

The Westminster Directory

190

(2)

The American Experience

192

(6)

Representative Reformed Liturgies and Directories of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

197

(1)

Culture and the Reformed Tradition

198

(24)

Visual Arts

201

(4)

Literature

205

(2)

Architecture

207

(3)

Music

210

(2)

Political Order

212

(5)

Economic Order

217

(2)

Learning

219

(3)

Prospects

222

(12)

The Freedom of God

223

(1)

The Reality of the Power and Presence of God

224

(1)

The Bible as the Word of God

225

(1)

The Emphasis on the Word: Spoken and Written

226

(2)

The Vision of the Christian Community

228

(1)

The Possibility of Discipline

229

(1)

The Simple Life

230

(4)

Notes

234

(23)

Indices

257

(1)

Subject Index

257

(4)

Name Index

261

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Introduction to the Reformed Tradition

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