Good Inferential Theology
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture – Westminster Confession of Faith 1.6 Is it legitimate to make inferences in theology? Covenant theology both Baptistic and [...]
A Grace-filled Covenant of Works
Friday, January 8th, 2010Another name for Reformed Theology is Covenant Theology. The idea is that God relates to man through the structure of a covenant. Covenants are what structures redemptive history and even the intra-Trinitarian decision to redeem a people for God. So when Covenant Theologians (myself included) look at redemptive history, we see an eternal covenant (Hebrews [...]
The Newness of the New Covenant
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Justin Taylor posted an excerpt from an essay on the New Covenant by D. A. Carson. I really like Carson on a lot of things and count myself blessed to have sat under his teaching at Trinity, but this is one of the areas I don’t agree with him on. I am a credobaptist (one [...]
The Christian and the Law
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Recently I taught on Colossians 2:16-17 and we talked about the relationship between the Christian and the law. What I wanted to do was to point out that the issue of the Sabbath is important and is handled in different ways by Bible believing Christians. For me that opened the question of how we understand [...]
A Second Look at the Federal Vision
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006A while ago, I posted a review of what is called the Federal Vision. Since then I’ve come to understand it a bit better and want to take another look at what they believe. The Federal Vision believes that one can be “in Christ” and not be eschatologically saved. Baptism places one “in Christ” (Gal [...]
More Baptist Covenant Theology
Thursday, October 20th, 2005I was pointed to this link which contains the audio from the Southern Baptist Founders Conference Southwest 2005. I thought Fred Malone’s talk “The Hermeneutics of Baptist Covenant Theology” was really excellent. It is a bit antagonistic towards paedobaptistic Covenant Theology (Malone used to be a presbyterian) but other than that I though he made [...]
Baptistic Covenant Theology
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005Rich Barcellos is an old friend of mine. He’s a pastor of a Reformed Baptist church in California and a busy editor of academic Reformed Baptist publications. Reformed Baptist Academic Press is publishing Covenant Theology from Adam to Christ. It is largely a text written by Nehemiah Cox, one of the framers of the 1689 [...]
My Problem with the Federal Vision
Saturday, September 10th, 2005Part 2 in a series. The acronyms clumped together are usually NPP/FV/AA which represent the New Perspective on Paul, Federal Vision and the Auburn Avenue Theology. In truth, only the last two somewhat belong together. Though there is some sympathy between them and some cross-polenization, they really are not the same things. I sort of [...]
Piper Overload
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005I just received a CD from Monergism Books with over 655 MB of John Piper lecturing on Calvinism. It will take a while to listen to it all and I can’t wait to get started!! Monergism is offering the CD for free and only $5 shipping. I ordered DA Carson’s The Cross and Christian Ministry [...]
The Sad Part
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005In another context I came across the part of the Covenant Theology that saddens me. I didn’t realize that it unsettled me till I saw it all lumped together: New Perspectiveon Paul Auburn Ave Theology/Federal Vision Paedocommunion Theonomy Extensive use of the Regulative Principle of Worship (mainly Psalms only in worship and no musical instruments) [...]
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