Encyclopedia of the Reformed faith
More than two hundred international scholars from a variety of denominations contribute to this outstanding, one-volume reference book. Comprehensive in scope, it stresses the importance of events, persons, and theological concepts that have been significant to the Reformed tradition
Print Book, English, 1992
Westminster/John Knox Press ; Saint Andrew Press, Louisville, Ky., Edinburgh, 1992
Encyclopedia
xxiv, 414 pages ; 25 cm
9780664218829, 9780715206607, 0664218822, 0715206605
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Accommodation
Accommodation Plan
Adherents
Admonitions to Parliament
Adoption Act
Adoption
Advertisements, Book of
Africa
Afrikaners
Alexander, Archibald
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Home Missionary Society
Ames, William (1576-1633)
Amyraut (Amyraldus), Moise (1596-1664)
Analogy
Antiburghers
Antirevolutionary Party
Apartheid
Apologetics
Architecture, Church
Arminianism
Ascension
Assurance of Salvation
Atonement
Auburn Affirmation
Augustine and Augustinianism
Australasia
Authority. Baillie, Donald MacPherson (1887-1954)
Baillie, John (1886-1960)
Baillie, Robert (1599-1662)
Baird, Charles Washington (1828-1888)
Baptism
Baptists, Particular
Barclay, William (1907-1978)
Barmen, Theological Declaration of
Barnes, Albert (1798-1870)
Barot, Madeleine (1909- )
Barth, Karl (1886-1968)
Bartholomew's Day Massacres
Basel Confession
Basel Mission
Bavinck, Herman (1854-1921)
Bavinck, Johan H
Baxter, Richard
Bay Psalm Book
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887)
Beecher, Lyman (1775-1863)
Belgic Confession
Bellamy, Joseph (1719-1790)
Benson, Louis Fitzgerald (1855-1930)
Berkhof, Hendrikus (1914- )
Berkhof, Louis (1873-1957)
Berkouwer, Gerrit C. (1903- )
Beza, Theodore (1519-1605)
Blake, Eugene Carson (1906-1984)
Blumhardt, Johann Christoph (1805-1880)
Boegner, Marc (1881-1968)
Boesak, Alan Aubrey (1946- )
Bolsec, Jerome (c. 1524-1584)
Bomberger, Joseph Henry Augustus (1817-1890)
Bonar, Andrew (1810-1892)
Bonar, Horatius (1808-1889)
Boston, Thomas (1676-1732)
Bourgeois, Louis (c. 1510-1561)
Brainerd, David
Brief Statement of Faith
Briggs, Charles Augustus (1841-1913)
Brown, John (1722-87)
Brown, William Adams (1865-1943)
Browne, Robert (c. 1550-c. 1633)
Bruce, Robert (c. 1554-1631)
Brunner, H. Emil (1889-1966)
Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925)
Bucer (Butzer), Martin (1491-1551)
Buchanan, George (1506-1582)
Bullinger, Heinrich (1504-1575)
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Bushnell, Horace. Caird, John (1820-1898)
Calvin, John (1509-1564)
Calvinism
Calvinism in America
Cambridge Platform/Synod
Cameron, John (1579-1625)
Cameron, Richard (c. 1648-1680)
Cameronians
Camisard Wars
Campbell, John McLeod (1800-1872)
Candlish, Robert Smith (1806-1875)
Canon of Scripture
Capitalism
Capito, Wolfgang (1478-1541)
Carey, Williams (1761-1834)
Carstares, William (1649-1715)
Cartwright, Thomas (c. 1535-1603)
Catechism
Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847)
Charismatic Movement
Charnock, Stephen (1628-1680)
Christian Education
Christology
Church
Church of Scotland Act
Clarendon code
Clark, Gordon H. (1902-1985)
Cocceius, Johannes (1603-1669)
Coffin, Henry Sloane (1877-1954)
Common Order, Book of
Common Prayer, Book of
Common Sense Philosophy
Common Worship, Book of
Communion of Saints
Confession of 1967
Confirmation/Admission to the Lord's Supper
Congregationalism, American
Congregationalism, British
Conscience
Consensus of Geneva
Consensus Tigurinus
Conversion
Cosmology
Cotton, John (1585-1652)
Covenant
Covenant, National
Covenanters
Cranmer, Thomas (1489-1556)
Creation
Creeds and Confessions
Cromwell, Oliver
Crypto-Calvinism
Cunningham, William (1805-1861). Dabney, Robert Lewis (1820-1898)
Daille, Jean (1594-1670)
d'Albret, Jeanne (1528-1572)
Dale, Robert William (1829-1895)
Daneau (Danaeus), Lambert (1530-1595)
Deacons
Death
Declaratory Acts
Decree(s) of God
Denney, James (1856-1917)
Descent into Hell
Dialectical Theology
Dick, John (1764-1833)
Discipline, Book of
Discipline, Church
Dispensationalism
Disruption, Scots
Dissenting Academies
Doctrine
Dodd, Charles Harold (1884-1973)
Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751)
Dooyeweerd, Herman (1894-1977)
Dort, Synod of
Downame, George (1565-1634)
Drummond, Henry (1851-1897)
Duff, Alexander (1806-1878)
Dutch Reformation
Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817). Ecclesiastical Ordinances
Economics
Ecumenism
Edwards, Jonathan
Elders
Elizabethan Settlement
Ellul, Jacques (1912- )
English Civil War
English Reformation
English Reformation
Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536)
Erastianism
Erskine, Ebenezer
Erskine, Ralph
Eschatology
Ethics, Social
Ethics, Theological
Evangelism
Ex opera operato
Experience
Extra Calvinisticum
Fairbairn, Andrew Martin (1838-1912)
Faith
Farel, William (1489-1565)
Federal Theology
Feminist Theologies
Field, John (1545-1588)
Finitum non capax infiniti
Finney, Charles Grandison (1792-1875)
Fisher, George Park (1827-1909)
Flavel, John (1627-1691)
Flint, Robert (1838-1910)
Foreknowledge
Foreordination
Forgiveness
Forsyth, Peter Taylor (1848-1921)
Foxe, John (1517-1587)
Free University of Amsterdam
Free Will
Freedom
Frelinghuysen, Theodore Jacobus (1691-1748?)
French Confession
French Reformation
Fuller, Andrew (1754-1815)
Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversy. Gaussen, [Francois-Samuel-Robert] Louis (1790-1863)
General Assembly
Geneva, Free Evangelical Church of
Geneva Academy
Geneva Bible
Geneva Catechism
Geneva Company of Pastors
Geneva Consistory
Geneva Gown
Genevan Reformation
Ghent, Pacification of
Gill, John (1697-1771)
Gillespie, George (1613-1648)
Gladden, Washington (1836-1918)
Glasgow Missionary Soceity
God
Gollwitzer, Helmut (1908- )
Gomarus, Franciscus (1563-1641)
Goodwin, Thomas (1600-1680)
Government, Civil
Grace
Great Awakening
Groningen School
Half-Way Covenant
Hampton Court Conference
Haroutunian, Joseph (1904-1968)
Hastings, James (1852-1922)
Healing Ministry
Health and Medicine
Heaven
Heidelberg Catechism
Hell
Helvetic Confession, First
Helvetic Confession, Second
Helvetic Consensus Formula
Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
Heppe, Heinrich Julius Ludwig (1820-1879)
Heresy
History
Hodge, Archibald Alexander (1823-1886)
Hodge, Charles (1797-1878)
Hoekendijk, Johannes Christiaan (1912-1975)
Holy Spirit
Hooker, Thomas
Hope
Hopkins, Samuel (1721-1803)
Horton, Walter Marshall (1895-1966)
Hromadka, Josef Lukl (1889-1969)
Huguenots
Humanism
Humanity
Hungary
Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of (1707-1791)
Hymnody
Hyper-Calvinism. Idolatry
Incarnation
Infralapsarianism
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Iona Community
Ireland
Irish Articles of Religion
Irish Presbyterian Missions
Irving, Edward (1792-1834)
Jackson, Sheldon (1834-1909)
Judson, Adoniram (1788-1850)
Justice
Justification
Kagawa, Toyohiko (1888-1960)
Kairos Document
Kingdom of God
King's Confession
Kirk, Kirk Session
Knowledge of God
Knox, John
Kohlbruegge, Hermann Friedrich (1803-1875)
Korea
Kraemer, Hendrik (1888-1965)
Kraus, Hans-Joachim (1918- )
Kreck, Walter (1908- )
Krummacher, Friedrich Wilhelm (1796-1868)
Kuyper, Abraham (1837-1920)
Lambeth Articles
Lang, John Dunmore (1788-1878)
Larger catechism
Laski (a Lasco), Jan (1499-1560)
Lavater, Johann Caspar (1741-1801)
Law
Lehmann, Paul L (1906- )
Leiden Synopsis
Leigh, Edward (1602-1671)
Liberation theology
Liberty, religious
Liturgy, reformed
Livingstone, David
Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn (1899-1981)
London Conference
London Missionary Society
Lord's Supper
Luther, Martin (1483-1546). Macartney, Clarence Edward Noble (1879-1957)
McCheyne, Robert Murray (1813-1843)
McCosh, James (1811-1894)
Maccovius, Johannes (1588-1644)
McCuffey, William Holmes (1800-1873)
Machen, J(ohn) Gresham (1881-1937)
Mackay, John Alexander (1889-1983)
Mackintosh, H.R. (1870-1936)
MacLeod, George Fielden (1895-1991)
Macleod, Norman (1812-1871)
Makemie, Francis (1658?-1708)
Malan, [Henri-Abraham] César (1787-1864)
Manton, Thomas (1620-1677)
Marburg Colloquy
Marguerite of Angoulême (1492-1549)
Marian exiles
Marot, Clément (c. 1497
1544)
Marprelate tracts
Marriage, theology of
Marrow controversy
Marshall, Peter (1902-1949)
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
Mather, Increase (1639-1723)
Mayflower Compact
Melville, Andrews (1545-1622)
Mercersburg theology
Merle d' Aubigné, Jean Henri (1794-1872)
Millenary Petition
Millennialism
Miller, Samuel (1769-1850)
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Ministry
Missionary expansion
Moderates
Moffat, Robert (1795-1883)
Moffat, James (1870-1944)
Moltmann, Jürgen (1926- )
Morrison, Robert (1782-1834)
Munus triplex
Murray, Andrew, Jr. (1828-1917)
Murray, John (1898-1975)
Musculus, Wolfgang (1497-1563)
Myconius, Oswald (1488-1552)
Mystical union. Nantes, Edict of
Narrative theology
Native Americans
Natural theology
Neo-orthodoxy
Netherlands, the
Nevin, John Williamson (1803-1886)
New College, Edinburgh
New England theology
New Haven theology
Newbigin, Lesslie (1908- )
Nicodemism
Niebuhr, H. Richard (1894-1963)
Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892-1971)
Nonconformity
Oecolampadius, John (1482-1531)
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth (1874-1969)
Olevianus, Caspar (1536-1587)
Olivéta, Pierre-Robert (c. 1505-1538)
Oman, John Wood (1860-1939)
Omnipotence
Orange order
Ordination
Original sin
Orr, James (1844-1913)
Orthodoxy, Reformed
Ostervald, Jean Frédéric (1663-1747)
Owen, John (1616-1683)
Paris Evangelical Mission Society
Pastoral care
Pastoral theology
Peace
Peale, Norman Vincent (1898- )
Perkins, William (1558-1602)
Perseverence of the saints
Phillip, John (1775-1851)
Philosophy
Pictet, Benedict (1655-1724)
Piety
Plantinga, Alvin (1932- )
Poissy, Colloquy of
Polanus, Amandus (1561-1610)
Politics
Polity
Prayer, practice of
Prayer, theology of
Preaching, history of
Preaching, theology of
Predestination
Presbyterianism in America
Presbyterianism in England
Presbyterianism in Scotland
Presbytery
Priesthood of believers
Princeton theology
Prophesyings
Protestant ethic
Protestant principle
Providence of God
Psalmody
Puritanism, American
Puritanism, English. Racism
Rainy, Robert (1826-1906)
Ramus, Peter (1515-1572)
Readers
Reason
Reformed Scholasticism
Regeneration
Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Relief church
Remonstrants
Repentance
Reprobation
Resistance, right of
Resurrection
Réveil, Le
Revelation
Revivalism in America
Revivals (British Isles)
Reynolds, Edward (1599-1676)
Roberts, Evan John (1878-1951)
Robinson, John (1575-1625) Rollock, Robert (c. 1555-1599)
Roman Catholic Church
Root and branch petition
Runner, H. Evan (1916- )
Rutherford, Samuel (1600-1661)
Sabbatarianism
Sacraments
Salvation
Sanctification
Saurin, Jacques (1677-1730)
Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order
Schaeffer, Francis A. (1912-1984)
Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Schlatter, Adolf (1852-1938)
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst (1768-1834)
Schneckenburger, Matthias (1804-1848)
Scholasticism
Schuller, Robert Harold (1926- )
Schweizer, Alexander (1808-1888)
Science (physical)
Scopes trial
Scots confession
Scottish Misionary Society
Scottish reformation
Scougal, Henry (1650-1678)
Scripture
Seceders, original
Sense of divinity
Separatism
Servetus, Michael (1511-1553)
Shedd, W(illiam) G(reenough) T(hayer) (1820-1894)
Shepard, Thomas (c. 1605-1649)
Shorter catechism
Simonton, Ashbel Green (1833-1867)
Sin
Slavery
Slessor, Mary Mitchell (1848-1915)
Smith, Henry Boynton (1815-1877)
Smith, Henry Preserved (1847-1927)
Smith, William Robertson (1846-1894)
Social gospel
Socinianism
Solemn league and covenant
Soteriology
South Africa
Speer, Robert Elliot
Spirituality
Spring resolutions
Spureon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
Stewardship
Stewart, James Stuart (1896-1990)
Strong, Augustus Hopkins (1836-1921)
Stuart, Moses (1780-1852)
Superintendents
Supralapsarianism
Synod. Taylor, Nathaniel William (1786-1858)
Teellinck, Willem (1579-1629)
Tennent, Gilbert (1703-1764)
Tennent, William, Sr. (1673-1746)
Tetrapolitan confession
Theocracy
Theological education
Theology, Reformed
Thirty-nine articles
Thornwell, James Henley (1812-1862)
Toleration, religious
Toplady, Augustus Montague (1740-1778)
Torrance, Thomas F. (1913- )
Total depravity
Tradition
Travers, Walter (c. 1548-1625)
Triers, the
Trinity
Turretin, Francis (1623-1687)
Ubiquity
Udall, John (c. 1560-1592)
Uniformity, acts of
Union with Christ (Mystical Union)
Unitarianism
United Secession Church
Universalism
Ursinus, Zacharias (1534-1583)
Usshr, James (1581-1656)
Van Dusen, Henry Pitney (1897-1975)
Van Dyke, Henry
Van Mastricht, Petrus (1630-1706)
Van Ruler, A.A. (1908-1970)
Van Til, Cornelius (1895-1987)
Vermigli, Peter Martyr (1500-1562)
Vestarian Controversy
Vestments Controversy
Vinet, Alexandre (1797-1847)
Viret, Pierre (1511-1571)
Visser 't Hooft, Willem A. (1900-1985)
Vocation
Voetius, Gisbert (1589-1676). Waldenses
War
Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851-1921)
Wars of Religion (French)
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Weber, Otto (1902-1966)
Welsh Calvinistic Methodism
Westminster Assembly
Westminster confession of faith
Westminster standards
Whitefield, George
Whyte, Alexander
Williams, John (1796-1839)
Williams, William (1717-1791)
Willison, John (1680-1750)
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
Wishart, George
Witherspoon, John (1723-1794)
Witness of the Holy Spirit
Wollegius, Johannes (1586-1629)
Women in the Reformed tradition (16th-18th centuries)
Women in the Reformed tradition (19th-20th centuries)
Word of God
Work
World Alliance of Reformed churches
World Council of churches
World religions
Worship
Zanchi, Girolamo (1516-1590)
Zell, Katharina Schütz (1497/98-1562)
Zwingli, Huldrych (1484-1531)
Contributors include: R. Benedetto, C.S. Calian, A.C. Cochrane, S.D. Crocco, R.C. Gamble, J.H. Gerstner, L.H. McKim, D.G. Miller, C. Partee, A. Purves, J.B. Rogers, E.A. Smith, J.E. Wilson, and M.L. Wolfe