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[If it is still the Lord's Day in your timezone, please return to this discussion tommorow] Recently, a meme was shared in the chat in which the text "I want Reformed Epistemology" and subsequently "I said Reformed Epistemology" was displayed along images of Thomas Aquinas, Cornelius Van Til...

Hebrews 1:3 says God is “upholding all things by the word of his power.” If this is true then it should be for all created things that their existence and continuance has no sufficient explanation in their own created natures, but is due only to God willing them to exist. Thus if one...

Where did the Reformed in her classical era agree and disagree with Aquinas? In light of the surge of Protestant interest in Aquinas, this new webpage with an Intro is a large reference list, going through the whole gamut of theology, juxtaposing Aquinas with Reformed Orthodox theologians on...

I have compiled quotes relating to divine simplicity from the first 1000 years of the Church, in part to show that the version of simplicity taught by Aquinas is not a novel, roman catholic doctrine, or even "Thomist," as it were, but something universally held to among the fathers (not to...

Hi friends, I have translated a section of Voetius dealing with scholastic theology for the first time. I feel that the scholastic/Aquinas retrieval movement has not been entirely honest about the reception of medieval scholasticism in the Reformed Church, especially when they make statements...

Richard Muller in his Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms in defining the donum superadditum states that, Aquinas maintained that the donum superadditum was part of the original constitution of man and that its loss was the loss of the original capacity for righteousness. Since the...

This helpful academic journal article from Dr. Ronald N. Frost delineates the role played by Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in fostering the medieval scholasticism that the Protestant Reformers sought to replace with a purer Augustinian theology. Crucial topics explored within Aristotle’s...