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Gisbertus Voetius: Toward a Reformed Marriage of Knowledge and Piety is unavailable, but you can change that!

This booklet aims to introduce Voetius to an English readership and to show how he wed a reformed scholastic methodology to a heartfelt piety. The church today needs Voetius’ balance of systematic and experiential theology to promote what John Murray has aptly called “intelligent piety.”

wherever repentance and faith are dealt with scripturally and faithfully, practical guidelines for daily life and warnings against specific sins cannot be avoided. Preaching and teaching that does not touch on practical, daily living, is not faithful to the primary doctrines of Scripture. Moreover, it is not the goal of practical ethics to introduce a purity of life that exceeds the agenda of the Reformers. Ethics is simply teaching people how to live out Reformed doctrine. When rightly presented,
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