You Tube Theology

In this first lecture part of our 2025 Fall Faculty Lectures featuring Dr. James Eglinton, he introduces a distinction common to early modern Reformed scholastic theologians as they defined theology: archetypal and ectypal theology. In archetypal theology, they described God’s infinite, unmediated knowledge of himself. By contrast, ectypal theology concerns our creaturely (and thus finite, mediated, contingent) knowledge of God. Drawing on Franciscus Junius and the Leiden Synopsis, this lecture will set out the dogmatic rationale for the archetype/ectype distinction, before setting out the distinction’s loss of popularity among late modern Reformed theologians.

Access the handout for the lecture here: https://bit.ly/43FmA7P