Academic Papers and Essays

Academic Papers and Essays

Nota Bene: (1) The some aspects of these papers no longer reflect my more mature understanding in certain areas. (2) These papers are not necessarily formatted according to the latest citation standards. (3) Some of these papers are written in a conversational style which can be terribly annoying to some readers. (4) These papers should be seen as seminal research attempts and so do not pretend to be exhaustive or definitive, or that the subject is now closed or in need of no further revision. (5) I am grateful to those seminary professors who allowed me to explore my interests in these areas. I am even grateful to those professors who became upset with the direction of some of my ideas.

Divine Permission of Sin

• GOD, Sin, and Gordon Clark

Classic-Moderate Calvinism

• Limited Atonement, the Free Offer of the Gospel and the Westminster Standards
• Saving Thomas Boston
• A Brief History of Deviant Calvinism

Framework Hypothesis

• The Framework Hypothesis

Justification

• The Place and Time of Justification in the Ordo Salutis of John L. Girardeau

Moderate Fideism and Apologetics

• Faith and Reason in Classical Apologetics
• When Faith is Not Enough
• Calvin, Barth, Schleiermarcher on the Doctrine of Scripture

Psalms in Biblical Worship

• Psalms in Biblical Worship

Theonomy

• In Pursuit of the Good Society
• Resurrection and the Moral Order

Sabbath

• Sabbath and Synagogue

Supralapsarianism

• Supralapsarianism and the Free Offer of the Gospel

Honors Thesis (University of Queensland, Australia)

• Zion’s Travail, Freedom of Religion in Presbyterian, Independent and Leveller Thought in the 1640s

Published Articles

• John Calvin on the Death of Christ and The Reformation’s Forgotten Doctrine of Universal Vicarious Satisfaction