Reformed theology is not an innovation. For two thousand years, the greatest minds in Christendom have championed the doctrines of sovereign grace — tracing an unbroken line from the apostle Paul through Augustine, the Reformers, the Puritans, and down to the present day. These are the men who spent their lives in the text of Scripture. We stand on their shoulders.
From the early church to the modern age, God has raised up defenders of His sovereign grace in every generation.
Reformed theology did not spring from nowhere in the sixteenth century. It is the recovery of apostolic Christianity. Paul taught it. Augustine defended it against Pelagius. The medieval church obscured it. Luther rediscovered it. Calvin systematized it. The Puritans applied it. Edwards revived it. Spurgeon proclaimed it. And it endures because it is not the theology of any man — it is the theology of Scripture.
Each generation faced its own form of the same ancient question: Is salvation ultimately God's work or man's? And each generation, guided by Scripture, gave the same answer: salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 2:9).
The father of Reformed theology defending grace
Reformation pioneer on human will and God's authority
Reformation theologian on God's sovereignty and election
Puritan theologian on atonement and covenant theology
American theologian on compatibilism and revival
The prince of preachers on God's sovereignty