Reformed Theology | The Works of John Frame and Vern Poythress

Review of Michael Horton, Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Review of Michael Horton, Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church1 by John M. Frame The title of this book is alarming, certainly by design. But the subtitle is even more so. Does it mean that the whole American church (all traditions, denominations, locations) is committed to an “alternative Gospel?” Or is it that, though part of the American church upholds the true, biblical gospel, there is within that church a movement (evidently a significant movement) to...

Review of R. Scott Clark, Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice

Review of R. Scott Clark, Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice1 by John M. Frame A friend told me that this book should have been titled, “why John Frame is wrong about absolutely everything.” Well, that overstates Clark’s interest in me and understates his other concerns in this book. He has bigger fish to fry than yours truly. But there are nine references to me in the index, only one leading to a favorable mention, and I will not ignore those in this review. More...

Machen’s Warrior Children

by John M. Frame Prof. of Systematic Theology and Philosophy Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida [“Machen's Warrior Children,” in Sung Wook Chung, ed., Alister E. McGrath and Evangelical Theology ( Grand Rapids : Baker, 2003).] Abstract From 1923 to the present, the movement begun by J. Gresham Machen and Westminster Theological Seminary has supplied the theological leadership for the conservative evangelical Reformed Christians in the United States. Under that leadership,...

Presbyterianism and Dispensationalism

by Vern S. Poythress This article is taken from The Practical Calvinist: An Introduction to the Presbyterian and Reformed Heritage (ISBN 1-85792-814-8) ed. Peter A. Lillback, pp. 415-24, which is published in the Mentor imprint of Christian Focus Publications (www.christianfocus.com) and is used with their kind permission. At first glance, presbyterianism and dispensationalism might seem to be opposites. How is it, then, that two of the most representative and influential American dispensationalists,...

Introduction to the Reformed Faith

by John M. Frame When I first came to Westminster Seminary as a student (1961), the student body was largely Reformed in background. Many of the students had been trained in Calvinistic1 schools and colleges; even more had studied the Reformed catechisms and confessions. Today, that is rarely the case. More and more, students have come to Westminster from non-Reformed backgrounds, or even from recent conversion experiences. And those from Reformed backgrounds don’t always know their...

Review of Beardslee’s Reformed Dogmatics

By John Frame [Published in The Presbyterian Journal (Oct. 5, 1977), pp. 19-20.] REFORMED DOGMATICS, ed. and trans. by John W. Beardslee III. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Paper, 471 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by the Rev. John M. Frame, associate professor, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa. After Calvin’s time, the mainstream of Reformed theology moved in various directions now described as “Protestant scholasticism” or”17th-century...