Chris Coldwell (NaphtaliPress) has published Presbyterian & Reformed books since 1987. He is the editor of The Confessional Presbyterian journal, an annual publication containing scholarly articles from a Confessional Presbyterian perspective by men from the many conservative Presbyterian & Reformed denominations today. He has a particular interest in the text of the Westminster Standards, and a critical text of the Larger Catechism is running serially in the journal beginning with the 2007 issue.

Whence the Regulative Principle of Worship? 2 Posted 09-19-2007 at 09:33 AM by NaphtaliPress Again, it is often claimed that Calvin did not hold to the Puritan Regulative Principle of Worship (to speak anachronistically). Rather the Puritans followed Calvin in placing key importance on the RPW. Horton Davies' Worship of the English Puritans is another work covered in "The Regulative Principle of Worship: Sixty Years in Reformed Literature Part One (1946–1999)," By Frank J. Smith, Ph.D., D.D. with Chris Coldwell, in The Confessional Presbyterian (2006) 89-164. Horton Davies ... Continue reading... NaphtaliPress Administrator

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Whence the Regulative Principle of Worship? 1 Posted 09-19-2007 at 08:42 AM by NaphtaliPress Updated 09-19-2007 at 09:15 AM by NaphtaliPress It is often claimed, almost always by those rejecting it, that the Puritans invented the regulative principle of worship. A good and often printed article on Calvin by Robert Godfrey is online here. The following is an extract from "The Regulative Principle of Worship: Sixty Years in Reformed Literature Part One (1946–1999)," By Frank J. Smith, Ph.D., D.D. with Chris Coldwell, in The Confessional Presbyterian (2006) 89-164. The year 1977 also saw the appearance of perhaps the earliest thesis to make ... Continue reading... NaphtaliPress Administrator

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