Articles by Daniel R. Hyde
Some of these articles first appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals and scholarly venues written for colleagues in the academic guild and the ministerium—Calvin Theological Journal, Puritan Reformed Journal, Mid-America Journal of Theology, and The Confessional Presbyterian. Some are more popular pieces written for church members that read carefully. For a full list, see my Curriculum Vitae.
They explore the history and practice of Reformed liturgy (including the neglected place of absolution), the theology of the Heidelberg Catechism and the broader Three Forms of Unity, the task of preaching, and disputed questions in Reformed history and catholicity.
The journal articles date from 2006 to 2017, written across two decades of pastoral ministry and doctoral work at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Each is available in full text, as a PDF, or both.
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Good Liturgy Is the Best Instructor: How Your Church’s Order of Worship Teaches What Your Church Believes
Every church has a liturgy, and every liturgy teaches. Daniel R. Hyde explains how a Reformed order of worship catechizes God's people from cradle to grave.
For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free: John Owen’s A Discourse Concerning Liturgies, And Their Imposition
John Owen's 1662 case against imposed liturgies was that Christ frees believers to worship by God’s Word alone. This article explores his theology of liberty, conscience, and worship.
Lutheran Puritanism? Adiaphora in Lutheran Orthodoxy and Possible Commonalities in Reformed Orthodoxy
Sixteenth and seventeenth-century Lutherans rejected liturgical rites that undermined justification by faith so strictly that sometimes they sounded remarkably “Puritan.” This article explores adiaphora in Lutheranism and its application for Reformed liturgy.
Not Holy But Helpful: A Case for the “Evangelical Feast Days” in the Reformed Tradition
May Reformed churches celebrate “special” days like Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost? This article argues these evangelical feast days are matters of Christian liberty: not holy, but helpful.
Lost Keys: The Absolution in Reformed Liturgy
Why did the absolution disappear from Reformed worship in the modern era? A study of its use by John Calvin and Martin Bucer, and a positive case for restoring this use of the keys of the kingdom to contemporary Reformed liturgical practice.
Calvin Theological Journal 46:1 (April 2011): 140–66.
According to the Custom of the Ancient Church? Examining the Roots of John Calvin’s Liturgy
John Calvin claimed the Genevan liturgy restored ancient practice. Daniel R. Hyde tests that against the Didache, Justin Martyr, and Tertullian, and finds it holds.
Puritan Reformed Journal 1:2 (June 2009): 189–211.