John Lafayette Girardeau (14 November 1825 23 June 1898) was a Reformed theologian and minister in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He is notable as a Calvinist defender of libertarianism, the teaching that Adam, as the representative man, could have chosen between alternatives, and that he could have chosen differently in the pre-fall state, rather than a determinist or compatibilist view.
He was a professor of systematic theology at Columbia Theological Seminary in South Carolina.
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C.N. Willborn - Who Was John Lafayette Girardeau?
Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism (1890) Discussions of Philosophical Questions (1900) Instrumental Music in the Public Worship of the Church (1888) Sermons on Important Subjects: Edited by George Blackstone (1907) The Will in its Theological Relations (1891) Sermons on Important Subjects: Edited by George Blackstone (1907) Misc. Writings / Log College
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