One of the things that became obvious throughout this review of Waters’ book on the Federal Vision was the extraordinarily sloppy job done by Waters in representing my views fairly or accurately. Unfortunately, this pattern continues in the footnotes and bibliography. An astonishing ommission in the bibliography is the doctrinal examination I took before my …
A Tulip From Calvin’s Garden
The last chapter of Waters’ book gives him an opportunity to wrap up. But although I will interact with some elements of this chapter, I am not going to wrap up, not just yet anyhow. Nossir. I am going to go through the footnotes too. First, Waters charges me with a “misuse of logic.” Were …
Confessional Laxity Over At Mississippi Valley
In my previous Auburn Avenue post, in the comments section Mark Horne supplied the following quotation from Turretin. The emphases are Mark’s, and Turretin was da bomb. “The question is not whether faith alone justifies to the exclusion either of the grace of God or the righteousness of Christ or the word AND SACRAMENTS (BY …
Salty Dogs and Crusty Lutherans
The first part of chapter seven in Waters’ book is dedicated to my views of sacramental efficacy and baptism. And so, here we are. He begins by saying that I misread B.B. Warfield definition of sacerdotalism, and seeks to establish that I misread it by simply stating why Warfield said what he did (p. 199). …
You Betcher
In the second part of chapter five, Waters goes on to misrepresent me on some other issues, particularly on the subject of the perseverance and apostasy. While Wilson admits the existence and presence of hypocrites within the covenant community and stresses the necessity of the inward operations of the Holy Spirit for an individual’s salvation, …
Federal Vision Assurance
The first half of chapter five in Waters’ book addresses the question of assurance of salvation. After recognizing that I had dedicated a full chapter to this subject, and granting that I emphasized a number of subjective aspects to assurance, Waters goes on to doubt the whole deal. Because I concluded that chapter with a …
Three Extra Eggs in the Pudding
After nine days on the road, occupied with this and that, I have just now had opportunity on the plane back to Idaho to comment on Guy Waters’ next chapter, the chapter on “covenant and election.” In order to work through this, we should begin by taking note of what it really means to read …
Moses the Blender
Chapter Two of Waters’ book is on covenant and biblical history. This post will not go on and on, but for two cents, it could. “What is clear is Wilson’s emphasis upon grace as the hallmark of the first covenant and as the principle that unites the first and second covenants” (p. 31). This is …
Scholarship on Stilts
NB: This post had the wrong tag applied to it, and so I do not think it made it into the Auburn Avenue ebook. Chapter One is Guy Waters’ introduction to and overview of the Federal Vision. In this chapter, he discusses names, players, and some of the foundational theological issues, particularly the definition of …
Guy Waters
Well, the time has finally come. I have received my copy of Guy Waters’ new book, entitled The Federal Vision and Covenant Theology: A Comparative Analysis. It is my intent to blog my way through this book, offering my thoughts on this general subject for the edification of a bemused Christendom, and to do so …