Meet the Puritans

W ords are such delicate things. The weakest word can communicate the most powerful truth. Yet strong words can also become impotent. This can happen when we use words as clichés so often that their impact is lost upon our minds and affections. Once such term is grace; one such cliché is covenant...

O ne of the striking yet sad features of the Antinomian-Neonomian debate of the 1690’s (see parts 1 , 2 ) was the evident personal animosity towards Daniel Williams. Although John Flavel also wrote against Antinomianism, including some of the views of Tobias Crisp, he and his book did not become...

Congrats to our own Dr. Ryan McGraw who last night gave his inaugural lecture as Professor of Systematic Theology at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina, entitled, "Gisbertus Voetius, Presbyterianism, and Smart Phones." Have a listen and enjoy !

W e finally come to the glories of our redemption with Westminster Larger Catechism questions and answers 30-31. I hope you have appreciated this feature of the Larger Catechism that its taken this long! It has spent so much time dealing with the creation, humanity’s fall, and the problem of...

Peter Opitz, ed., The Myth of the Reformation , vol. 9, Refo500 Academic Studies (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck...

Meet the Puritans editor and contributors Joel Beeke, Danny Hyde, and Ryan McGraw will be speaking at the upcoming International Conference on "John Owen: Between Orthodoxy and Modernity." Hosted by the Theological University Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, from August 31–September 2, this conference...

Back in April we did a book giveaway of our own Dr. Ryan McGraw's book, Is the Trinity Practical? We want to encourage everyone to learn about this book so Dr. McGraw joined the Confessing Our Hope podcast to discuss this book as well as a forthcoming book that will be Meet the Puritans' first...

Our presbytery youth camp director this summer assigned Puritan team names for the campers: Watson, Owen, Bunyan, and Perkins. No surprise at an Orthodox Presbyterian Church camp, until the staff and counselors picked a name for their “team.” We chose “Crisp” after the alleged antinomian Tobias...

A lthough the antinomian-neonomian controversy of the 1690’s (see part 1 ) involved godly ministers who were all part of the same but broad Reformed family—most of them had even formally united together on the basis of Reformed confessions—they did not treat one another very well during their...

Thanks to our friends at Crown & Covenant Publications , we have two (2) copies of Bradley Johnston's, 150 Questions About the Psalter: What You Need to Know About the Songs God Wrote. USA addreses only. One entry per person. Deadline is Friday, August 29. Click here to enter ...