Recent decades have witnessed much scholarly reassessment of late-sixteenth through eighteenth-century Reformed theology. It was common to view the theology of this period-typically labelled 'orthodoxy'-as sterile, speculative, and rationalistic, and to represent it as significantly discontinuous with the more humanistic, practical, and biblical thought of the early reformers. Recent scholars have taken a more balanced approach, examining orthodoxy on its own terms and subsequently highlighting points of continuity between orthodoxy and both Reformation and pre-Reformation theologies, in terms of form as well as content. Until now Scottish theology and theologians have figured relatively minimally in works reassessing orthodoxy, and thus many of the older stereotypes concerning post-Reformation Reformed theology in a Scottish context persist. This collection of essays aims to redress that failure by purposely examining post-Reformation Scottish theology/theologians through a lens provided by the gains made in recent scholarly evaluations of Reformed orthodoxy, and by highlighting, in that process, the significant contribution which Scottish divines of the orthodox era made to Reformed theology as an international intellectual phenomenon.

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductionCarl Trueman, Westminster Theological Seminary, USAPart 1: Early Reformed Orthodoxy (c.1560-c.1640)Chapter 1: Knox versus the Knoxians? Predestination in John Knox and Seventeenth-Century Federal Theology Donald John MacLean, Wales Evangelical School of Theology, UKAndrew Melville and Christian Hebraism: The Humanist Legacy of a Renaissance Scholar Ernest R. Holloway III, Westminster Theological Seminary, USAThe Eternal Decree in the Incarnate Son: Robert Rollock on the Relationship between Christ and Election Brannon Ellis, Acquisitions Editor for Lexham Press, USAWhere Was Your Church Before Luther? History and Catholicity in Early Seventeenth-Century Aberdonian Theology Nicholas Thompson, University of Auckland, New ZealandAlexander Henderson: Reformed Orthodoxy and Constitutional Crisis in Scotland Donald Macleod, Free Church College, UKScottish Hypothetical Universalism: Robert Baron on God's Love and Christ's Death for All Aaron Clay Denlinger, Reformation Bible College, USAPart 2: High Reformed Orthodoxy (c.1640-c.1690)Samuel Rutherford's Euthyphro Dilemma: A Reformed Perspective on the Scholastic Natural Law Tradition Simon J. G. Burton, University of Warsaw, PolandSamuel Rutherford on the Divine Origin of Possibility Aza Goudriaan, University of the Free State, South AfricaClavis Cantici: A 'Key' to the Reformation in Early Modern Scotland? Guy M. Richard, Senior Minister of First Presbyterian Church, USAScotland and Saumur: The Intellectual Legacy of John Cameron in Seventeenth-Century France Albert Gootjes, Calvin Theological Seminary, USAJohn Calvin and John Brown of Wamphray on Justification Joel R. Beeke, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, USAPart 3: Late Reformed Orthodoxy (c.1690 onwards)Thomas Halyburton and John Locke on the Grounding of Faith in Scripture Paul Helm, Regent College, CanadaThe Rational Defence and Exposition of Christianity: Thomas Blackwell and Scottish Orthodoxy in the Early Eighteenth Century Richard A. Muller, Calvin Theological Seminary, USAThe Act or Habit of Faith? Alexander Comrie's Interpretation of Heidelberg Catechism Question 20 Gerrit A. van den Brink, Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven, Belgium BibliographyIndex