Catholicity, Orthodoxy, and Lordship
Continuing my with my brief comments on the Federal Vision Debate– at De Regno Christi,– we come to Leithart’s response to Darryl Hart’s claim that FV proponents have gone too far in starting their own denomination. Leithart claims: …whatever we end up saying about the calling and responsibilities of the PCA, OPC, CREC, or ministers …
Starting with this post, I will be focusing on the discussion that occurred on September 18th. Caleb Stegall1 writes a post called: The Accidental Ecumenicist. His central concern is that perhaps FV ” is an outgrowth of mere Christian monologism” He adds: One of the principle differences eclipsed by mere Christian monologism is the Catholic …
D.G. Hart begins to add some fuel to the discussion. Here is where I think my previous post begins to shed some of the main differences in FV attempts for catholicity and anti-FV attempts to remain in their miniscule, ever-so small bubbles. Hart’s reply to Leithart is as follows: So I would have thought that …
Leithart seems to draw the discussion a bit more into the concept of catholicity, which is a central concern of the Federal Vision. It is true as I have mentioned in the first post that the Federal Vision may have particular theological commitments that may alienate other Presbyterian communities. However, their ultimate goal is to …
Peter Leithart enters the dialogue with a helpful piece entitled: Ecclesial Calvinism. Leithart offers a few more valuable insights from a Federal Vision perspective. Leithart writes about his introduction to Calvin’s Institutes: I remember the first time I read through the Institutes and discovered to my astonishment that Calvin, like Cyprian, thought we needed an …
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My friend John Muether joins the conversation. He writes: I am with Doug and Peter on their anti-Gnostic and high church sentiments. I would shamelessly add that the Nicotine Theological Journal (founded 1997) was lobbying for those causes long before the infamous Auburn Ave conference of 2002. Apart from some humorous comments/attacks concerning one of …
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Starting with this post, I will be focusing on the discussion that occurred on September 18th. Caleb Stegall a writes a post called: The Accidental Ecumenicist. His central concern is that perhaps FV ” is an outgrowth of mere Christian monologism” He adds: One of the principle differences eclipsed by mere Christian monologism is the …
In a previous post John Muether asks Doug Wilson: “Are you suggesting that amillennialism is an insufficiently embodied belief?”Wilson replies: Every orthodox Christian position affirms the bodily resurrection of Christ, and our bodily resurrection in Him at the Last Day. So on what matters, that is more than “sufficient.” But I would say that postmillennialism …
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Chellis finally joins the conversation. He is a bit frustrated with Wilson’s emphasis on eschatology. In his own experience he left Postmillenialism due to its gnostic tendencies. (HUH?!) At any rate from his perspective he does not think that the FV debate should center around eschatological sectarianism. I agree and so does Wilson, but let …
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I will be posting on my reading of the debate currently taking place at De Regno Christi. My posts will begin on the discussion that followed on September 17th a Beginning with Part 8, I will begin to focus on September 18th. Doug Wilson begins the debate by stating some of the underlying assumptions of …