This is interesting.
Johannes Weslianus: FV Defender Retracts
Johannes Weslianus: FV Defender Retracts
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and Praise God!I still believe that the FV has identified issues that are of concern in our Reformed world (assurance, lack of catholicity, un-clarity about the status of covenant children), but I am (a) not persuaded that their formulations have resolved any of these tensions any more than the best of our own tradition and (b) not persuaded any longer that our forefathers…for all their diversity…would have considered the FV as 'within the bounds' of (at least) Reformed orthodoxy.
In sum, I am persuaded (with most of the Reformed community) that we can always grow in wisdom and knowledge of the truth…but I am (now) un-persuaded that the Federal Vision offers the path to a more mature understanding in any substantive way
In the FV context, they comfort themselves that they can tell their kids they received objective union with Christ in the sacrament of baptism forgetting that they just left everyone in the Church in a state where objective assurance has suddenly been ground to powder.
Maybe Christian Renewal would print a retraction since the original article was printed there and a rebuttal not allowed.