OPC Republication Committee

[alexandermsmith]

Hey, there might already be a thread addressing this but I was wondering if someone could give me an update on the OPC's study committee on the Republication controversy?

 

[Hamalas]

Here is the relevant quote from the running daily report on the GA from the OPC website:

The assembly then turned its attention to the report of the Committee to Study Republication. Two years ago, the assembly erected a committee to examine the concept of the Mosaic covenant as a republication in some sense of the covenant of works made with Adam. The committee was charged with advising the assembly as to what is consistent with the doctrinal standards of our church (the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms). The committee, consisting of five of the OPC’s most learned ministers, labored for the past two years and produced a detailed report. The committee explains that the key section of the standards is Westminster Confession of Faith chapter 7. The Confession teaches thatthere is one covenant of grace that “was administered differently in the time of the law and in the time of the gospel” (WCF VII.5). There are not “two covenants of grace, differing in substance, but one and the same, under various dispensations” (WCF VII.6). So the Mosaic covenant must be viewed in substance as a part of the covenant of grace, through administered differently than the new covenant. This confessional language of substance and administration helps us to define which views of the Mosaic covenant are confessional and which are not.

The assembly voted to distribute the report to presbyteries and other interested parties for study. The report would not carry constitutional weight, as if it were the official statement of the OPC, but the assembly determined it would be a profitable document. The report includes a list of topics pertaining to covenant theology for presbyteries to consider as they examine candidates for the ministry.

Source: http://opc.org/GA/83rd_GA_rpt.html

I still can't find a link to the actual report though. Can anyone supply that info for us?

 

[bookslover]

I've been told by my pastor, who was at GA this year, that the report will appear on the OPC's website in September or thereabouts.

 

[Contra_Mundum]

Posted: http://opc.org/GA/republication.html