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PREFACE
1.1 Status Quaestionis
1.2 Genevan Reformed Theology as an Appropriate Subject of Research
1.3 Method
2.1 Calvin and the Question of Predestination and Preaching
2.2 Earlier Research
2.3 Outline of this Chapter
2.4.1 Definitions
2.4.2 Calvin’s use of the word ‘reprobation’
2.4.3 Supralapsarianism or Infralapsarianism?
2.4.4 Steps in Election
2.5 Predestination and the Extent of the Atonement
2.6 Predestination and the Covenant
2.7 Predestination and Church
2.8 God’s Purpose and the Preacher’s Purpose in Preaching
2.9 The Mode of Preaching the Gospel: Conditionally and Unconditionally
2.10 The Particularity and Universality of the Promises
2.11 Predestination and the Response to Preaching
2.12 Predestination, Faith, and Assurance
2.13 Preaching the Doctrine of Predestination
2.14 Summary: Predestination and the External Call
2.15 Commentary and Sermon on 1 Timothy 2:4
2.16 Sermons on Micah
2.16.1 Covenant
2.16.2 Predestination
2.16.3 The Purpose of Preaching
2.17 The Sermons on Genesis
2.18 Summary: Theory and Practice
3.1 Beza and the Question of Predestination and Preaching
3.2 Earlier Research
3.3 Beza, Calvin, and Early Reformed Orthodoxy
3.4.1 Disagreement between Calvin and Bullinger
3.4.2 Beza’s Letters of 1551 and 1552
3.4.3 Beza’s View of Calvin’s De aeterna praedestinatione
3.4.4 Statements for the Classis of Lausanne
3.4.5 The Tabula is Completed
3.4.6 The Tabula Not Sent Immediately to Bullinger
3.5.1 Title
3.5.2 Editions
3.5.3 Intention
3.6.1 The Decree
3.6.2 Supralapsarianism
3.6.3 The Execution of the Decree
3.7 Predestination and the Extent of the Atonement
3.8.1 The Covenant
3.8.2 The Church
3.9 God's Purpose and the Preacher’s Purpose in Preaching
3.10 The Mode of Preaching the Gospel
3.11 Predestination and the Response to Preaching
3.12 Predestination, Faith, and Assurance
3.13 Preaching the Doctrine of Predestination
3.14 Summary: Predestination and the External Call
3.15.1 Predestination
3.15.2 The Atonement
3.15.3 The Covenant and Church
3.15.4 Conditionality
3.16 Summary: Theory and Practice
4.1 Diodati, Tronchin, and the question of Predestination and Preaching
4.2 Earlier research
4.3 The Genevan Remarks on the First Article
4.4 The Genevan Remarks on the Second article
4.5 Less Bezan than Others? McComish’s Thesis Examined
4.6 Supralapsarianism or Infralapsarianism? Beeke’s Thesis Examined
4.7 From Supralapsarianism to Infralapsarianism
4.8 The Canons on Predestination
4.9 The Canons on the Atonement
4.10 Predestination and the External Call in the Canons
4.11 Conclusions
5.1.1 Historical Developments: Saumur
5.1.3 Turretin’s Life
5.1.3 Turretin against Saumur
5.2 Earlier Research
5.3 Predestination
5.4 Predestination and the Extent of the Atonement
5.5 Predestination and the Covenant
5.5.1 Turretin's View of the Covenant Compared with Calvin’s
5.6 Predestination and the Church
5.7 God’s Purpose and the Preacher’s Purpose in Preaching
5.8 The Mode of Preaching the Gospel
5.9 Predestination and the Response to Preaching
5.10 Predestination, Faith, and Assurance
5.12 Summary: Predestination and Preaching
5.13 Turretin's Sermons
5.13.1.1 The Sermon on Making One’s Calling and Election Sure
5.13.1.2 The Sermon on the Firm Foundation
5.13.1.3 Other Sermons
5.13.1.4 Conclusions
5.13.2 The Extent of the Atonement
5.13.3 The Covenant
5.13.4 The Congregation
5.13.5 The Assurance of Election
5.13.6 God’s Purpose in Preaching
5.13.7 Conditionality
5.13.8 The External and Internal Calls
5.14 Summary: Theory and Practice
6.1.1 A Changing Theological Climate
6.1.2 Jean-Alphonse Turretin
6.1.3 Pictet’s Life and Works
6.2 Earlier Research
6.3 Predestination
6.4 Predestination and the Atonement
6.5 Pictet’s Ambivalence on Predestination and the Atonement
6.6 Predestination and the Covenant
6.7 Predestination and the Church
6.8 God’s Purpose and the Preacher’s Purpose in Preaching
6.9 The Mode of Preaching the Gospel
6.10 Predestination and the Response to Preaching
6.11 Predestination, Faith, and Assurance
6.12 Preaching the Doctrine of Predestination
6.13 Summary: Predestination and the External Call
6.14 Pictet’s Sermons
6.14.1 The Examination of Religions
6.14.2 The Fourteen Sermons
6.15 Summary: Theory and Practice
6.16 Appendix: Later Developments in Geneva
7.2 Genevan Theologians and Their Involvement in the Question of Predestination and Preaching
7.3 The Doctrine of Predestination
7.4 Predestination and the Extent of the Atonement
7.5 Predestination, the Covenant, and the Church
7.6 God's Purpose and the Preacher’s Purpose in Preaching
7.7 The Mode of Preaching the Gospel: Conditionally and Unconditionally
7.8 Predestination and the Response to Preaching
7.9 Predestination, Faith, and Assurance
7.10 Preaching the Doctrine of Predestination
7.11 Genevan Sermons and Predestination
7.12 General Conclusion
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