The next issue of Credenda is going to be addressing the whole issue of the Federal Vision, and in that issue you will find a statement of convictions signed by some of the leading participants in this conversation — we have released that document early so you can take a look at it here. For …
RC Sr. Denies the Gospel
I am listening to the August message of the month from Ligonier, where RC Sr. is talking about the Noahic covenant. Imagine how I felt when I heard him say that the distinction between the “covenant of works” and the “covenant of grace” was somewhat “artificial” and even “superficial.” Imagine further how I felt when …
Greenbaggins Does Too Take an Exception
Under the heading of “No Exceptions,” Lane has responded to my last post this way: I do not take any exceptions to the Westminster Confession of Faith. Wilson conveniently forgot to mention WCF 28.5, when he argues that I need to take an exception to the Standards: ‘Although it be a great sin to contemn …
What It Must Have Meant
One more and I am caught up in my exchanges with Greenbaggins. But before answering the questions he raises about my chapter on baptism, I think it is important to address a question raised in the comments of my previous post. “You make it sound like you’re boys playing king of the dirt pile. Say …
Greenbaggins Takes an Exception
And in his latest response to my response, Lane says this in the course of his continued discussion of Warfield. “Regeneration can happen before baptism, during baptism, or after baptism. Therefore, it is not dependent on baptism.” This really gets at the crux of the matter between us, and it illustrates why I believe that …
Sanctions and the Sacrament
I believe that this next interaction with Greenbaggins promises to be pretty helpful. He is still critiquing the tenth chapter of RINE. “In other words, for Wilson, the objective nature of baptism means that all people who are baptized come into the same relationship to the covenant, in this sense: that they are all under …
Westminster Sacerdotalism
I said that I was going to try to get caught up with Greenbaggins’ review of RINE, and here is the next payment on that particular debt. In his review of my tenth chapter, Lane says that my criticism of Warfield is based on a confusion of sacerdotalism and sacramentalism. “Sacerdotalism,” he says, “has to …
Walk Like a Ninja
Greenbaggins continues to review my book “Reformed” Is Not Enough, and he does so here. He begins this post by asking where I have been hiding. I sent an email to Douglas Wilson asking if he is desirous of continuing the debate. I believe that since June 28th, which was the first post on the …
Apropos of Nothing
In the tension-filled room full of systematic theologians and biblical theologians, it is perilously easy to juxtapose “timeless truths” to “story.” But this is not necessary, and this is another plea to all get along. It should go without saying that I affirm what the Reformed systematicians have distilled out behind their magisterial barn. And …
Plug and Chug Legalism?
Kevin Johnson quotes from an article in the most recent Credenda, and admonishes me for something I didn’t say in it. “Correspondingly, the Reformation was first about our repentance and embracing of Christ something which Wilson never mentions in this article. This was curious on two counts. First, it should be possible to write an …