John Girardeau
# John Girardeau

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 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.

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

## Writings / Bibliography

* 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
