Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In this Reformed Historical-Theological Study, Dr. Richard A. Muller delves into one of the most controversial doctrines of Reformed Theology: predestination. Muller carefully investigates key incidents that illustrate the doctrine’s complexity and development by surveying Reformed thought on predestination in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Along the way, Muller challenges distorted ideas about the placement of predestination in theological systems, naïve readings of Calvin based solely on his Institutes, simplistic representations of supra- and infralapsarian debates, and uncharitable views of Reformed theologians as hyper-dogmatists obsessed with their own tradition.
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- Investigates predestination by surveying Reformed thought across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Challenges common misconceptions regarding the placement of predestination.
- Corrects simplistic or uncharitable readings of Calvin and the subsequent debates.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
- Predestination in the Eras of the Reformation and Early Reformed Orthodoxy
- The Placement of Predestination in Reformed Theology
- Calvin on Predestination: A Developmental and Bibliographical Essay
- Inclusive Supralapsarianism: The Heritage of Franciscus Junius and the Leiden Theology in Early Modern Reformed Thought
- Defending Dort: John Robinson and the Separatist Predestinarian Controversy
- Joseph Hall (1574–1656): Toward Peace in the Church and a Reformed Via Media
Index
In this welcome and enjoyable collection of essays, Richard Muller deploys both profound learning and forensic acuity to interrogate and challenge a number of unhelpful assumptions that still distort the study of early modern Reformed theology. The theological tradition that emerges is shown to be more diverse, more subtle, and more interesting than it has often been taken to be. The essays in this volume are fine examples of how tightly focused and readable analyses can nevertheless shed significant light on a wider field of study.
——Todd M. Rester, associate professor of church history, Westminster Theological Seminary
- Title: Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology
- Authors: Richard A. Muller, Joel R. Beeke, Jay T. Collier
- Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2026
- Pages: 240
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Predestination › History of doctrines--16th centur; Reformed Church › Doctrines--History--16th centur; Predestination › History of doctrines--17th centur; Reformed Church › Doctrines--History--17th centur
- ISBNs: 9798886861082, 9798886861075
- Resource ID: LLS:PRDSTNTNRLYHSST
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2026-03-17T14:49:37Z