RSSEntries Tagged as 'Federal Vision'
Trueman on the Justification controversies
In light of our FV discussion from a couple of months ago, I thought that it would be worth posting this snippet from a recent interview of Carl Trueman at Reformation21:
The book’s concluding chapter is on the issue of justification – a somewhat “hot†topic today. Would you care to summarize for us what “the [...]
Thanks for a Great Discussion
For nearly three weeks the DRC has been home to a great discussion. I want to thank all of our contributors for participating and all our readers for reading.
May the Lord bless these conversations as the NAPARC community continues to try to wrestle with the difficult questions raised by the present controversy. [...]
The Sufficiency of Christ
Before you go Doug (and others) maybe you could help with one last question. I am still trying to figure out FV’s rejection of the imputation of the active obedience of Christ (IAOC). The FV Statement on-line says that Christ is all in all and that his work is credited to us. [...]
Back for the wrap up!
Hello happy bloggers. It is good to be back to civilization. Sorry to have missed to much fun. I will have some catchup reading to do. I am not married to dates. I was thinking today was the end but Rev. Brown has noted that things do not officially end [...]
Hold Your Horses!
I know there has been confusion over when this forum will end. It is my understanding that this discussion of the FV is slated to end on October 5–this Friday. If any of our guest participants can’t continue on after today, we’ll certainly understand. I apologize for this confusion, and also for the fact that [...]
Trinitarianism without reserve
Darryl’s questions about relational v. forensic point to one dimension of the FV discussion that we haven’t talked about, the effort to think through our theology on thoroughly Trinitarian premises.
The basic question is: If the ultimately reality over the universe is a communion of Divine Persons, what does that say about the character of the [...]
Re-Paganizing the Church
James brought up pagans in the comments. Darryl mentioned that Lewis thought pagans were more ready to accept Christianity than moderns. Recently, Leithart had a short piece in First Things making basically the same point and arguing for a “re-paganization†of the west. This is an important discussion to have, I think, [...]
Christ the Center
Many thanks to everyone for the stimulating discussion.
Despite the many different threads, I would like to conclude by pointing to what I believe to be the circumstances driving, not only our discussion, but the controversy overall. We live in dislocated, de-centered times, and this means that even the most ardent conservative has nothing incarnational, no [...]
Federal Vision and the Culture War
So far the FV reaction to critics at DRC seems to be “why are you guys persecuting us? We’re not trying to impose our views on anyone else, so why are you doing that to us?” In effect, FV projects itself as liberal if not libertine and its critics as intolerant dogmatists.
And yet [...]
It’s still about Shepherd
Doug earlier today talked about latitude in the Reformed tradition regarding the active obedience of Christ. Bill later chimed in with some remarks about the Marrow Controversy and neo-nomianism. As I’ve read the blog for the past two weeks, I can’t help but think that this debate is really between supporters (FV) and [...]