Category Archives: Ron Frost

The AChristological Focus of Covenant Theology: A Note on What in Fact is Being Retrieved in the Reformed ‘Resurgence’

Posted on May 9, 2018 by

The ‘resurgence’ of Reformed theology in the conservative evangelical sub-culture and beyond continues, but what is being retrieved in this recovery of the so called ‘doctrines of grace?’ In this post I wanted to briefly highlight an emphasis, or lack … Continue reading →

Posted in Christology, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism, Janice Knight, Richard Sibbes, Ron Frost, Salvation, Soteriology, William Ames | 3 Comments

Responding to Mark Dever’s Modern Day Practical Syllogism: Using Church Membership as Proof of Eternal Life and Justification Coram Deo

Posted on January 31, 2018 by

I think some of my Barth posts, of late, might make it appear that I am anti-church; this would be far from the case though. I am afraid this post might make it seem as if I am anti-church; but … Continue reading →

Posted in Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism, Mark Dever, Ron Frost, Salvation, Soteriology | 2 Comments

The Real Reason for Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation: And How that Confronts and Contradicts what is Known as Reformed Orthodoxy Today

Posted on October 15, 2017 by

I was first introduced to Martin Luther’s theology, for real, in my 2002 Reformation theology class, during seminary, under the tutelage of Dr. Ron Frost (who I would later serve as a TA for, and be mentored by). Ron had … Continue reading →

Posted in Classical Theism, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism, Martin Luther, Reformation, Reformed Theology, Ron Frost, T. F. Torrance | 14 Comments

What is God? No. Who is God? The Impasse that Gave Us a Stillborn Evangelical and Reformed Faith

Posted on July 31, 2017 by

Who is God? Or maybe the question is: What is God? The latter question is what the Post Reformed orthodox theologians were concerned with, and it is this question that we receive an answer for in the Westminster Confession of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cornelius van der Kooi, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Doctrine Of God, Gijsbert van den Brink, Historical Christianity, Historical Theology, Martin Luther, Reformation, Reformed Theology, Ron Frost | 1 Comment

The Personal and Positive Reality of Sin, and How that Impacts Our Walks with Jesus

Posted on November 30, 2016 by

Sin, the word, has almost become cliché these days; we almost, even in the church, in many ways, think of it in cavalier terms; maybe only because we have been exposed to it so much (for those who have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Doctrine Of Sin, Ron Frost | 1 Comment

Martin Luther’s ‘Real Reason for the Protestant Reformation’, and What Critics of evangelical Calvinism Don’t Get about evangelical Calvinism’s Impetus or Their Own Mode of Theologizing

Posted on October 17, 2016 by

Martin Luther famously critiqued and rejected Aristotle, and the impact that Aristotelian philosophy had had upon Christian theology in the late medieval period; particularly as mediated through the synthesis of Thomas Aquinas’s theology with Aristotelian philosophy. This was such a … Continue reading →

Posted in Alister McGrath, Aristotle, Barth, Evangelical Calvinism, Karl Barth, Martin Luther, Reformation, Reformed Theology, Richard Muller, Ron Frost, T. F. Torrance, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas F. Torrance, Thomism

Affective Theology, A Seedbed for My Style of evangelical Calvinism

Posted on October 16, 2016 by

The following is a post I first wrote about a year into my blogging, back in 2006 (started blogging in 2005). I like to introduce folks to this every now and then because it serves, theologically, as the impetus that … Continue reading →

Posted in Affective Theology, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism Book, Puritanism, Purtian Theology, Richard Sibbes, Ron Frost | 3 Comments

Hypostatic Grace: A Response of Sorts to Tom McCall and Substance Metaphysics

Posted on September 23, 2016 by

Substance metaphysics has been a topic of engagement here at The Evangelical Calvinist as long as its existence as a blog; indeed, it is a metaphysic that I have characterized as oppositional and anti-thetical to the aims of what I … Continue reading →

Posted in Analytic Theology, Analytical Theology, Ron Frost, Salvation, Soteriology, Spirituality, Tom McCall | 1 Comment

A Different Way: A Calvinism where God is Love rather than Law

Posted on September 21, 2016 by

God is love. For evangelical Calvinists such as myself and Myk Habets this is determinative for how theology ought to be done, and the shape which Christian spirituality should have—the shape of love, Triune love. One of the theses Myk … Continue reading →

Posted in Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Doctrine Of Creation, Doctrine Of God, Evangelical Calvinism, Evangelical Calvinism Book, Ron Frost, Salvation, Soteriology, Spirituality, T. F. Torrance, Thomas F. Torrance

Miscellanies on the Thomist Intellectualist Tradition and its Impact on Reformed Theology

Posted on August 9, 2016 by

Something that I don’t think most Reformed theologians, whether yet budding, or senior are all that concerned with or cognizant of is the role that their respective anthropology plays in their theological prolegomena. I would say that most if not … Continue reading →

Posted in Analogia Entis, Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Analogy of Faith, Barth, Classical Arminianism, Classical Theism, Critiquing Classic Calvinism, Doctrine of God, Evangelical Calvinism, Jacobus Arminius, Metaphysics, Reformation, Reformed Theology, Revelational Theology, Richard Muller, Ron Frost, Salvation, Soteriology, T. F. Torrance, Theo-Anthropology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas F. Torrance, Thomism | 1 Comment