title: John Girardeau
text: # 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
  