Author: federal-vision

Doug Wilson just released this new ebook, The Auburn Avenue Chronicles.

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I am afraid that this book is kind of a beast. It is a collection of all my blog posts that were filed under the heading of “Auburn Avenue Stuff.” In addition, at the end I included the emails I sent as part of the summit at Ft. Lauderdale. We have removed any identifying markers from those to prevent violating any confidences.

The posts have only been lightly edited for typo-type stuff, and they appear in chronological order. Part of the reason for doing this project is that we are getting to the place where graduate students in theology might need help in tracking things down for FV research papers, and I thought it would be a kindness to put all my blogging contributions in one place.

When I call this thing a beast, I mean that it is north of 300,000 words. And yet, mirabile dictu, it still costs only a dollar, just like the other books. Enjoy is not the right word, but if it were, I would say enjoy.

“His views are well known. I can read English.” – R. Scott Clark

The blunt answer, which cannot really be softened, is “no, he cannot read English.” Let me take one example that Clark likes to use. He says that FV teaches that baptism puts everyone in a state of grace, which is then maintained by the believer through his own covenantal faithfulness. Is that not a fair summary of what Clark says I teach? Well, here is some English for Clark to read. I think that such a doctrine is bad juju. I believe that it would be what theologians of another era might call a lie from the pit of Hell. I hope that one day I might be privileged to soak this doctrine in lighter fluid and set a match to it. If I ever found this doctrine on a sheet of paper in my office somewhere, I would run it through the shredder. Prior to my weekly dump run, I search my house for any traces of this doctrine so that I might throw it in the back of my pick up truck in order to take it out to the landfill along with all the bottles, empty ice cream cartons, grapefruit rinds, and coffee grounds. So the next time you read Scott Clark saying that I teach some form of this, you should probably say to yourself, “Hmmm. No speekee.”

Read full post from Doug Wilson HERE.

Doug Wilson interacts with a post by Shane Lems from The Aquila Report related to union with Christ and the Federal Vision.

I would be happy for the sake of peace and clarity to never again use “union with Christ” in reference to a non-elect covenant member. But we still need a biblical way to describe them and their relation to Christ, and that description cannot be the opposite of the biblical description. Christ has non-elect branches, and they are _______________ (what?) to Christ.

Read the full post HERE.