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The new 2015 Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (JIRBS), that we previously announced, is now available from Reformed Baptist Academic Press (RBAP) for $12.

[ RBAP: $12 | AMZ: $18 | £11.94 ]

Find out more about this JIRBS by listening to podcast interview #82 with Dr. James Renihan.

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Dr. James Renihan

On episode 82 of our interview podcast we have Dr. James Renihan back on to tell us all about the 2015 Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies.

He has previously been on episodes #7, 21, and 22.

TOPICS:

Purpose and Importance of the Journal

Christian Liberty and our Modern Mindset

Overview of the Articles in the 2015 Journal

Tools for studying the 1689

His 1689 Commentary Project

Purpose and Overview of the Book Reviews

+ more

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The Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies

Christ Reformed Baptist Church, Vista, CA.

The True Bounds of Christian Freedom by Samuel Bolton

Dr. Renihan’s Baptist Symbolics Lectures

Reformed Baptist Theological Review

Tools for studying the 1689:

Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms by Richard A. Muller

Truth’s Victory Over Error: A Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith by David Dickson

Oxford English Dictionary

A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life by Joel R. Beeke and Mark Jones

Book Reviews:

Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law by David VanDrunen

God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God by K. Scott Oliphint

Process and Providence: The Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845-1929 by Bradley J. Gundlach

The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate by Michael J. Kruger

The Theology of the Westminster Standards: Historical Context and Theological Insights by John V. Fesko

Confessing the Faith: A Reader’s Guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith by Chad Van Dixhoorn

Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: A Guide and Commentary by Brian Davies

Thomas Grantham: God’s Messenger from Lincolnshire by John Inscore Essick

TUNAGE:

Almighty God by Tim Hughes

Out Now: $18/£11.94 Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies 2015 (Vol. 2)

Sneak peek at some upcoming Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (JIRBS) titles

Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies 2015 article titles

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The Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies 2015 (Vol. 2) is now available in paperback from Amazon:

[ $18 | £11.94 ]

Overview:

The Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies is published to explain and support the theology of Holy Scripture as it is summarized in the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith.

Details:

Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: Reformed Baptist Academic Press

Articles:

SCOPUS SCRIPTURAE: John Owen, Nehemiah Coxe, our Lord Jesus Christ, and a Few Early Disciples on Christ as the Scope of Scripture, Richard C. Barcellos

PAEDICATIO VERBI DEI EST VERBUM DEI: “The Preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God” – Heinrich Bullinger and The Second Helvetic Confession, Ronald Baines

SUFFICIENT, CERTAIN, AND INFALLIBLE: The Inscripturated Word, James M. Renihan

“DOLPHINS IN THE WOODS”: A Critique of Mark Jones and Ted Van Raalte’s Presentation of Particular Baptist Covenant Theology, Samuel Renihan

CHRIST SPIRITUALLY PRESENT AND BELIEVERS SPIRITUALLY NOURISHED: The Lord’s Supper in Seventeenth-Century English Particular Baptist Life, G. Stephen Weaver, Jr.

ETERNAL CREATOR OF TIME, James E. Dolezal

Book Reviews:

Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law by David VanDrunen

reviewed by Micah Renihan

God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God by K. Scott Oliphint

reviewed by Charles J. Rennie

Process and Providence: The Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845-1929 by Bradley J. Gundlach

reviewed by James M. Renihan

The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate by Michael J. Kruger

reviewed by James P. Butler

The Theology of the Westminster Standards: Historical Context and Theological Insights by John V. Fesko

reviewed by James M. Renihan

Confessing the Faith: A Reader’s Guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith by Chad Van Dixhoorn

reviewed by James M. Renihan

Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: A Guide and Commentary by Brian Davies

reviewed by James E. Dolezal

Thomas Grantham: God’s Messenger from Lincolnshire by John Inscore Essick

reviewed by James M. Renihan

Coming this Tuesday, be on the lookout for our extensive podcast interview with Dr. James Renihan on this new Journal.

Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies 2015 article titles

Sneak peek at some upcoming Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (JIRBS) titles

Upcoming Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies [JIRBS] Tease

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It is a new year and that means another Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (JIRBS) will be coming out. Here are the JIRBS 2015 article titles:

SCOPUS SCRIPTURAE: John Owen, Nehemiah Coxe, our Lord Jesus Christ, and a Few Early Disciples on Christ as the Scope of Scripture, Richard C. Barcellos

PAEDICATIO VERBI DEI EST VERBUM DEI: “The Preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God” – Heinrich Bullinger and The Second Helvetic Confession, Ronald Baines

SUFFICIENT, CERTAIN, AND INFALLIBLE: The Inscripturated Word, James M. Renihan

“DOLPHINS IN THE WOODS”: A Critique of Mark Jones and Ted Van Raalte’s Presentation of Particular Baptist Covenant Theology, Samuel Renihan

CHRIST SPIRITUALLY PRESENT AND BELIEVERS SPIRITUALLY NOURISHED: The Lord’s Supper in Seventeenth-Century English Particular Baptist Life, G. Stephen Weaver, Jr.

ETERNAL CREATOR OF TIME, James E. Dolezal

[source: RBAP]

Sneak peek at some upcoming Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (JIRBS) titles

Upcoming Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies [JIRBS] Tease

Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (Vol. 1) out now!

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Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenant by Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum

This review article was published in the Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (2014): 153-76, and is used with permission from Reformed Baptist Academic Press.

Sam Renihan

Here is the first couple of paragraphs of the critique sections and the closing paragraph:

It goes without saying that Gentry and Wellum are to be commended for their detailed, careful, and extensive work. They are also to be commended for a desire to say what God has said in such a way that reflects the way that he has said it. But we must now turn to iron-sharpening and face the giants in the land.

The fundamental argument of Kingdom through Covenant is sound. God does indeed govern his world through dominion delegated by covenant. The overall metanarrative is also sound. There is a great tension/need in the progress of the historical covenants for one who will do perfectly all that God commands. But the authors are operating under a few false dilemmas.

They propose their system as a via media between covenant theology and dispensationalism. From all appearances, covenant theology equals paedobaptism. The only hint to the contrary is the brief mention of Greg Nichols’ book in the preface (12- 13). Forasmuch as the authors are weary of the rehearsal of the same arguments from covenant theologians, they would find many an ally among the federal theologians of the seventeenth-century Particular Baptists. A rejection of the idea that the historical covenants are simply “administrations” of the covenant of grace, an appreciation for the progressive nature of God’s covenantal dealings with man, and an insistence that the new covenant is the covenant of grace are arguments that have been brought forward in the past. But these arguments did not entail the same rejection of the covenant of works and covenant of grace as is seen in this book. Thus, it is a false dilemma to see no party besides paedobaptist federal theologians and dispensationalists…

Gentry and Wellum have produced a volume that demands attention, consideration, and interaction. At the very least, it provides a wealth of exegetical work and research for those who would want to study these issues. But more than that, it is a book that will add contour and detail to the reader’s understanding of the divine drama and all that God has done and will do for his people throughout the ages.

You can read the HTML (text) of this article at 1689 Federalism [52 minute readout], as well as find the :

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Sample of Review Article on Kingdom through Covenant from JIRBS [Sam Renihan]

Review: Jeffrey D. Johnson’s “The Kingdom of God: A Baptist Expression of Covenant & Biblical Theology”

Available Mar. 3, 2014: Jeff Johnson’s The Kingdom of God – A Baptist Expression of Covenant & Biblical Theology [Book]

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CJay Engel, The Reformed (Baptist) Libertarian

Blogging at Reformed Libertarian, CJay Engel summarizes and comments on Ronald Baines’ recent JIRBS piece:

This year’s Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (JIRBS) featured an important essay written by Pastor Ronald Baines entitled “Separating God’s Two Kingdoms: Two Kingdom Theology among New England Baptist in the Early Republic.” The relevance of the essay to this site is profound. The Two Kingdom/Neo-Kuyperian debate has swept through the Reformed Christian world lately and the impact that this topic has on Christians and their political theory is surely obvious. This debate is not new. As Baines shows in the essay, this very struggle among Christians was present during the years contemporary to the birth of the United States.

Baines begins by pointing to the story of “Daniel Merrill, pastor of the Baptist Church in Sedwick, Maine” who was educated as a paedobaptist (infant baptism) and only later, after seeking to refute the credobaptist (“believer’s baptism”) position, became a Regular Baptist (Calvinistic Baptists were called “Regular Baptists” to distinguish them from “General Baptists” who were Arminians). The reason why Baines starts here is for the purpose of showing the striking difference between the Baptist and the paedobaptist in their understanding of the kingdom of God. In today’s world, often the difference between the believer’s baptism position and the infant baptism position seems surface level and a bit trivial, a small detail among others. But one must never fail to look beyond the surface to the underlying foundations of a church sacrament like baptism. The two positions are not chosen arbitrarily and without purpose. There is an important and elemental distinction in regards to the nature of God’s kingdom and His covenants with men.

Using the history presented by Baines as a launchpad, Engel makes some ties between the beliefs of early American Baptists and the aims of his own website, Reformed Libertarian:

The Reformed Libertarian vision seeks to expand on the good work of these Christians who maintained that the kingdom of God will not –indeed cannot — be furthered by the use of coercion in society. The Moral law is the standard by which God, the great and ultimate and holy Judge will measure the righteousness of his human creation. For those who are not in Christ, judgement is yet to come; and Christ has already received that wrath for all who believe. Let not the State seek to play the role of Christ by aiming to uphold the Moral Law of God in civil society. Nor should it uphold Israel’s Judicial Law. Such would be a theological impossibility. This is the vision of the Reformed Libertarian.

You can read the entire post here.

Matrix of Reformed Baptists 3 of 3 [Audio]

Reformed Baptists, Reformed Paedobaptists, & The Mosaic Covenant [Pascal Denault]

Reformed Baptists & The Law – John D. Reuther [Reformed Baptist Theological Review]

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When the paperback came out in March we reported that a Kindle edition was coming soon… the wait is over:

The Kindle edition of The Journal Of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (Vol. 1) is now available at Amazon:

[$7.99 | £4.88]

Paperback:

[$13.91 | £8.57]

Available at RBAP.net for $12

Also see our podcast interview with Richard Barcellos about RBAP.net feat. Jim Renihan on the publishing of JIRBS:

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