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Historical Theology

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Dec 20, 2024

CTF 2025 - Who Is The Conference For?

Jim Butler

A brief panel discussion previewing a theology conference for pastors, elders, deacons, and laypeople in Reformed churches. The conversation addresses why doctrinal instruction — rooted in historical theology, systematic theology, and exegesis — is more foundational than purely practical programming. The core concern is that Christians in the modern church bypass the knowledge of God for immediate application, and the conference intends to remedy that by grounding practical Christian living in a right understanding of who God is.

Feb 26, 2024

2024 Conference Theme - Of the Holy Scriptures

Jim Butler

This brief conference introduction previews a study of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689), Chapter 1, 'Of the Holy Scriptures.' The discussion covers the authority, canon, sufficiency, and interpretation of Scripture, with particular attention to the confessional principle that Scripture interprets Scripture (analogia scripturae). Two scholars — one specializing in historical theology and one in hermeneutics — will situate Chapter 1 in its seventeenth-century context and apply its interpretive principles to the contemporary church.