Catholic, Evangelical, and Reformed

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Before we consider Reformed theology's distinctives, we must remember that the theology of the Reformation embraces truths universally confessed by Christians through the ages. Today, R.C. Sproul outlines these foundational truths.

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Meet Today's Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

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0:00.0	Remember that the theology that emerged and came to the front of the stage in the 16th century
0:06.5	was not something that was invented for the first time in the 16th century.
0:11.5	It was a reformation, not a revolution.
0:15.0	It was an attempt in the 16th century to recover the historic Christian apostolic faith.
0:27.6	As you just heard R.C. Sproles say, reform theology was not invented in the 16th century.
0:34.6	The Reformation sought to go back to the original form, to the
0:39.3	historic Christian faith. This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham.
0:45.8	If you have friends or family members that you've been discussing, perhaps even debating
0:51.1	reformed theology with, consider sharing these podcast episodes as
0:55.7	R.C. Sprole carefully and graciously begins not only to outline the distinctives of reform
1:01.5	theology, but he also calls attention to the unity we have with other Christian traditions.
1:08.7	R.C. Sprole will begin today by explaining that reform theology is systematic theology,
1:14.6	and it was seeing that system, the way that each doctrine related to the next that changed
1:20.6	my Christian life, as I mentioned yesterday.
1:23.6	Well, here's Dr. Sprawl as we continue to answer the question, what is reform theology?
1:32.4	In our first session, we saw that reform theology is a theology.
1:40.7	And now I want to suggest to you that reform theology is a systematic theology. It's been one of my
1:50.6	privileges of my lifetime to be able to teach the discipline of systematic theology at the
1:59.5	seminary level. And I know in this day and age, with the advent of
2:05.0	existential philosophy, for example, there's been this growing antipathy or an allergy, as it were,
2:13.4	against the whole idea of systems.
2:18.3	And sometimes there's good reason for that.
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