13 Jan 2020
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
(This is the final essay in a series on the Federal Vision. The first installment, a general introduction to the state of the conversation, can be found here. The second installment identifies the various personalities and their history. The next three essays explained the FV theology in more detail:...
Read more → 08 Jan 2020
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
(This essay continues a series on the Federal Vision that I have been writing since November, 2019. The first installment can be found here. The second is here. The third is here, and the fourth is here. Though I earlier stated that this essay would be my final one, I see the need for one more to come....
Read more → 03 Jan 2020
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Douglas Wilson is the embodiment of “RIP my mentions.” His controversies range from politics to theology to literature. People laud him as a visionary leader, and people deride him as a cult leader. To some he is too conservative. To others, he has departed from the true Reformed tradition. Wilson...
Read more → 19 Dec 2019
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
I must apologize for the month-long delay in completing this series on the Federal Vision. Seasonal travels and other obligations interfered. Nevertheless, I will begin to lay out a summary description of the theological issues involved in the Federal Vision and offer some critical observations. Before...
Read more → 18 Nov 2019
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
I recently introduced a series on the Federal Vision. In the first installment, I explained why people are still talking about it and promised follow-up articles explaining the history and development of FV. In this post I would like to give something of a survey history of the personalities and controversy...
Read more → 08 Nov 2019
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
A little over a week ago Professor Scott Clark sounded his quarterly alarm about the Federal Vision. Even though the Federal Vision was a theological discussion that began at the turn of the 21st century and reached its zenith around 2008, Dr. Clark warns his audience that the Federal Vision is back...
Read more → 18 Oct 2019
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Earlier this year, an article at TGC Australia started a controversy over the question of the temptations and impeccability of Christ. In the article, Ed Shaw wrote, "I’m wanting the young people who come to this event to know that Jesus is the one person that they can fully trust with their sexualities,...
Read more → 23 Sep 2019
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Originally published in 1908, Herman Bavinck's book The Christian Family was only just translated into English in 2012. Throughout the book, Bavinck lays out a Christian theology of the family, and he gives practical advice on how families can withstand modern challenges and temptations. At one point...
Read more → 12 Jun 2019
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
In his famous "Third Theological Oration," Gregory of Nazianzus gives this rule for interpreting biblical passages about Christ: To give you the explanation in one sentence. What is lofty you are to apply to the Godhead, and to that Nature in Him which is superior to sufferings and incorporeal; but all that...
Read more → 24 Jan 2019
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Anyone familiar with the Simpsons' Groundskeeper Willie, knows that old-fashioned Presbyterians did not celebrate holidays. Even Christmas was seen as illegitimate, and Christmas was not celebrated in early Puritan America. This stance has given way pretty decisively, and in the present day, the overwhelming...
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