r. scott clark
Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology

1. The Importance of Being More Than Earnest
   1. Lost in America
   2. A Movement Fragmented
      1. Fundamentalists
      2. Revivalists/Subjectivists
      3. Confessionalists
   3. Conservative is Not Enough
      1. Confessionalists
      2. Non-Confessionalists
         1. Liberals
            1. Hard (Modernists)
            2. Soft/Progressive Evangelicals/Barthians
         2. Conservatives
            1. Fundamentalists
            2. Revivalists/Neo-Evangelicals
   4. Doctrine
      1. In Contemporary Evangelicalism
      2. In Scripture
      3. Necessity of Theology
      4. The Danger of Ignorance
      5. Theology as an Act of Charity
      6. Contra Dead Orthodoxy
         1. Reformata Semper Reformanda
         2. The Ethics of Reformation
         3. The Manner of Reformation
         4. The Sources of Reformation
            1. Scripture
            2. Confession
   5. Historical Situation
      1. Situatedness

      2. EPOCH	DATE	QUESTION
         Christian Antiquity	Ascension to 1650	What?
         Modernity	1650-1914/1968	Has?
         Postmodernity	1914/1968-	Who Cares, Who is asking and what do they want?

   6. Christian Antiquity
   7. Modernity
      1. Modernity and Our Crisis
      2. The Calvinists and the Modernists
         1. The Late Renaissance
         2. Calvinist Orthodoxy and Modernity
         3. Princeton Contra Mundum
      3. Pietism and Modernity: What's the Frequency Kenneth?
   8. Postmodernity
      1. The Questions of the Age
      2. Postmodern Foundationalism?
      3. Postmodernity and Our Crisis
   9. Using the Map: That Was Then and This is Now
2. The Silence of the Lambs
   1. The Classical Reformed Pattern
   2. Reformed Theology After Calvin
   3. Where Have You Gone, Joe Dimaggio?
   4. The Virtues of Being Classically Reformed
      1. It is Biblical
      2. It is Catholic
      3. It is Confessional
      4. It is Evangelical
      5. It is Churchly
      6. It is Vital
   5. Reasons to Be Reformed
      1. God's Reliable Word
      2. Hermeneutics
         1. Covenants
            1. Covenant of Redemption
            2. Covenant of Works
               1. Ante-lapsum
               2. Post-lapsum
            3. Covenant of Grace
               1. Unity
               2. Diversity
               3. Internal/External
         2. Law and Gospel
            1. Covenant of Works
            2. Covenant of Grace
         3. Covenantal Unity of Scripture
         4. The Progress of Revelation
         5. NT Interprets OT
      3. Our Sovereign, Triune God
         1. Trinity and Unity
         2. Existence
         3. Attributes
         4. Works
            1. Creation
            2. Providence
      4. Man: God's Image Bearer
         1. Imago Dei
         2. Lapse
      5. Christ's Person and Work
         1. Pactum Salutis
         2. Two Natures
         3. Work
      6. Salvation and Justification
         1. Divine Sovereignty
         2. Divine Grace
         3. The Ground of Justification
         4. The Instrument of Justification
      7. The Christ Confessing Covenant Community
         1. Visible/Invisible
         2. Militant/Triumphant
         3. Notae Ecclesiae
         4. Word and Sacraments
            1. Word and Spirit
            2. Means of Grace: Signs and Seals
         5. Worship
            1. The Revivalist Principle
            2. The Lutheran RPW
            3. The Reformed RPW
         6. Sanctification and the Christian Life
         7. Two Kingdoms
      8. Christ's Present Reign and the Consummation
         1. The Israel of God
         2.  
3. God's Theology and Ours
   1. The Creator-Creature Distinction
   2. Accommodation
   3. The Analogy Between God's Mind and Ours
   4. A Brief History of Theological Method
      1. Aquinas
      2. Nominalism
      3. The Protestant Appropriation of Scotus and Ockham
         1. Luther on Deus Absconditus et Revelatus
         2. Calvin and the Reformed
   5. The Parts of Theology
      1. Archetypal Theology
      2. Ectypal Theology
         1. Theologia Beatorum
         2. Theologia Angelorum
         3. Theologia Unionis
         4. Theologia Viatorum
      3. The Loss of these Principles
   6. Uses of the Archetypal/Ectypal Distinction
      1. The Clark Case
      2. The Well-Meant Offer
      3. Open Theism
      4. Multiperspectivalism
4. The Illegitimate Quest for Religious Experience
   1. Revivalism:
   2. The Thrill is Gone
   3. Calvinist Orthodoxy and Subjectivism
      1. The New Covenant; Dry Bones and Preaching
      2. Ordinary v. Extraordinary
      3. Theologia Gloriae v Theologia Crucis
      4. Prayer: The Chief Part of Thankfulness
   4. A Modernist Movement
      1. Colonial Revivalism as Proto-Romanticism
      2. The Edwards Problem
      3. Heidelberg, Perkins and Owen on the Means of Grace
5. The Illegitimate Quest for Religious Authority
   1. Reactionary Rationalism
   2. Fundamentalism
   3. Setting Priorities
      1. Revising the Trinity and Justification
      2. Substance and Accidents
   4. Biblicism: Narcissus Reformed
      1. History and Definition of Biblicism
      2. The Cost of Something Close to Biblicism
   5. The Creation Controversy
      1. The Theological Function of This Question
      2. What To Do with General Revelation?
      3. Geocentrism Anyone?
6. What is Your Name: Patterns of Recovery
   1. New-Old Worship
   2. History of Exegesis
   3. Theological Method
   4. The Muller Project
   5. Restoration and Recovery
   6. Reformed
      1. Classic
      2. The Reformed Theologians
         1. Calvin and the Calvinists
         2. Calvin and the Scholastics
         3. Calvin and the Humanists
   7. Tradition
      1. Semper Reformanda
      2. Tradition in Scripture
      3. Sola Scriptura

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