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Practical Divinity by William Fenner (1600–1640) William Fenner (1600–1640) was one of the clearest voices of seventeenth-century English Puritanism. His sermons are plain, zealous, and piercing, filled with Scripture and applied with searching force. This volume gathers William Fenner’s most...

Greetings, My name is João Pedro, I am 17 years old, the son of Reverend Leonardo, and a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Itajubá, Brazil. This year, our church is restarting its youth ministry, focused on young adults between the ages of 18 and 30. As we begin this new season, we are...

Edit: I meant to note in the title that this is specifically about Bahnsen's writing on theonomy, no one else. Since the Bahnsen Project liberated Bahnsen's recorded material from CMF, I've been listening to a good bit and got into one of Bahnsen's series on ethics. Now background: I would...

NOTICE: On the advice of another member, I am splitting my questions up (Smart 2012) into three separate posts, allowing "folks to more easily focus the discussion on one point" (Lindsay 2012, par. 2). This is the first of three posts; the other two are "Heretical v. unorthodox: What is heresy?"...

NOTICE: On the advice of another member, I am splitting my questions up (Smart 2012) into three separate posts, allowing "folks to more easily focus the discussion on one point" (Lindsay 2012, par. 2). This is the second of three posts; the other two are "Heretical v. unorthodox: What is...

NOTICE: On the advice of another member, I am splitting my questions up (Smart 2012) into three separate posts, allowing "folks to more easily focus the discussion on one point" (Lindsay 2012, par. 2). This is the first of three posts; the other two are "Heretical v. unorthodox: Does heretic...

(I am not sure that I have placed this in the correct forum here at PuritanBoard. Feel free to move it to a more appropriate forum if this is not the correct one.) I present the following questions for the sincere and thoughtful consideration of Presbyterian members here—although it is open...

I've seen a thread on here asking for people's Twitter usernames, but I thought it might be helpful since the release of Twitter Lists to create a few Reformed lists that are more specific than "Reformed" I've created three main lists: Twitter / @nwbingham/conf-westminster (for those who...

Hello all, This would probably be better done as a poll but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Anyway, in several threads I have seen people propose constructing a new confession for Reformed and Presbyterian denominations not because the old ones are broken, but to construct one for...