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A fine essay by WSC student (and my TA) Joshua Forrest. Apparently all orthodoxy is not dead orthodoxy.

Here is the first post in this series.

Here is Bruce’s response to that post.

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your thoughtful responses to my questions. Judging by your responses I think I was not clear enough in a few places. Read the rest of this entry »

One sign that we’ve entered a strange new time is that a Princeton Seminary prof has written an essay in order to instruct WTS/P faculty about the meaning of the Definition of Chalcedon as understood by the Westminster Confession. Read the rest of this entry »

Part two of this series is here.

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Kim Riddlebarger is working his way through the Canons of Dort. He’s covering the Rejection of Errors. The RE was the Synod of Dort’s way of re-asserting the anthesis between the Reformed faith and the compromise with moralism and rationalism known as Arminianism or the Remonstrant theology.

One of the things I like most about the Reformed faith is its doctrine of “the antithesis.” This is inside code for, “not of this world.” In Reformed churches this isn’t just a clothing line. It’s a way of thinking about ourselves, about the church, about the world, and about where where we are in history (eschatology).  Read the rest of this entry »

From a comment at the GB discussion:

…The trouble is whether people will read, let alone try to understand, their answers. Believe it or not, Calvin and Old Princeton were pretty careful not to equate inerrancy with a scientific understanding of the cosmos. Read the rest of this entry »

These are important days for our brothers and sisters at WTS/Philadelphia. Read the rest of this entry »

Lee critiques the way I relate the Bible and the confession in this earlier post. As I understand his post he has one major complaint with two aspects, 1) that I misrepresent the oath taken by WTS profs; 2) that ignore the fact that WTS profs do not swear allegiance to everything in the Westminster Standards but to the “system of doctrine” therein. Read the rest of this entry »

Darryl Hart has weighed in at DRC regarding the controversy at WTS/P. He is responding to a couple of blogs and to a post by Carl Trueman to which I replied a month ago. Darryl has pointed out for a years now, the reigning paradigm for interpreting American religion has been “conservative v liberal.” This paradigm doesn’t always work, however. Read the rest of this entry »

Rick Phillips at Ref21 writes:

“When I was in seminary a few years later, I had a discussion with our local InterVarsity rep, who was a seasoned, old-time IV veteran. When I brought up my concerns about the dangers of inductive Bible studies and heterodoxy, she surprised me by saying, “Yes, InterVarsity believes in heterodoxy.” Now, this was just one person, but I think it was also the simple truth. I amazed me that this would be stated as a virtue, but there it was. I also think this embrace of heterodoxy was predictable, just as I think this IV-Urbana dabbling with Roman Catholicism is predictable. The very organization that perhaps more than any other promoted the idea of individual interpretation and authority, now promotes articles written by those who are fleeing individualism for the safety of papal authority.” Read the rest of the article….