The Puritan Board

Here are my questions. I’m not looking for answers yet. I’m looking to sharpen the questions themselves so we’re asking the right things with clarity and precision. If you’ve worked through this before, I’m mainly interested in how to better frame (metge) these questions so nothing important is missed yet get to the heart of the matter. Not trying to reinvent anything, just tryi...

What are the go-to systematic theologies for Reformed Baptists? Your equivalent of Hodge or Berkhof, so to speak?

I see that Gill has a Body of Divinity, but I don't know enough about it to know if it's a comprehensive systematics text, or if it's useful/valued by Reformed Baptists today. I also don't know what others there might be. I am assuming that Grudem doesn't co...

I need some help brethren. I have a big box of tracts from the OPC's website that I really like. They are solid Gospel presentations, but they are rather long as far as tracts go. Can anyone recommend any very short tracts that only contain or mostly contain Scripture? I haven't been able to find them yet on my own and old Board threads about tracts mostly have broken links or d...

I would like to start a discussion on 7.3 of the 2LBC, particularly regarding the relationship between the covenant of redemption and the covenant of grace. In light of recent discussions on the subject of baptism and covenant theology, I would like to do a few things:

1. The grammar is somewhat opaque to me and I would love clarity. I will explain more below with my qu...

Hello brothers,

I’m working on a document for my church on infant baptism. I serve at a Reformed church within the Alliance of Reformed Churches, where I’ve been for the past 18 months. The church officially affirms the Reformed doctrine of infant baptism, though it also offers baby dedications for members who do not hold that view. I’m not a big fan of that practice, a...