John Lafayette Girardeau (14 November 1825 23 June 1898) was a Reformed theologian and minister in the Presbyterian Church in the United States.[1] He is notable as a Calvinist defender of libertarianism, the teaching that people have free will to choose between alternatives, and that they could have chosen differently than they actually did, rather than a determinist or compatibilist view.[2]

He was a professor of systematic theology at Columbia Theological Seminary in South Carolina.[3]

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References

  1. Willborn, C. N. (2004). "John Lafayette Girardeau". PCA Historical Center.
  2. Crisp, Oliver D. (2014). Deviant Calvinism. Minneapolis: Fortress. p. 95.
  3. Girardeau, John (1891). The Will in Its Theological Relations.


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