Gisbertus Voetius: Toward a Reformed Marriage of Knowledge and Piety

This booklet aims to introduce Voetius to an English readership and to show how he wed a reformed scholastic methodology to a heartfelt piety. Standing at the pinnacle of scholasticism immediately prior to its disintegration, Voetius illustrates how orthodox Reformed theologians used scholasticism as a methodology which, contrary to the oft-repeated caricature, promoted neither a departure from Calvin’s theology nor a dead orthodoxy.

The church today needs Voetius' balance of systematic and experiential theology to promote what John Murray has aptly called "intelligent piety."

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Life and Ministry
3. Professorship
4. Theology
5. Ethics
6. Ascetics
7. Polity
8. Influence