heymikey80
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur
Not Federal Vision itself, no. Unfortunately I see a whole lot of Federal Vision ideas in Charles & A. Hodge, as well as a number of their predecessors. Not to mention, in Lutheran thought.Would you consider Federal Vision to be one of those majors?
"as the bread is distributed to us by the hand, so the body of Christ is communicated to us in order that we may be made partakers of it. Though there should be nothing more, we have good cause to be satisfied, when we understand that Jesus Christ gives us in the Supper the proper substance of his body and blood, in order that we may possess it fully, and possessing it have part in all his blessings."
The only place I would consider its thought to be objected widely is in Baptist theology.
Still, I'd consider some of the Federal Visionists to be challenging the basis for some of those majors, just as I would consider some of the NPP-ists to be pressing against some of those majors. Frankly that's not unusual: a peek at Soteriology Forum would show people who are radically beyond the pale when it comes to the basic principles of Protestant soteriology -- yet they claim the name "Protestant" as well. Still, I don't see the PCA or the OPC declaring excommunicated the likes of say, Dillow or Geisler or a number of other people at variance with certain crucial aspects of salvation.
In point of fact the issue has to be considered -- because lack of consideration leads to lack of understanding. When the issue isn't accurately represented, too, the issue is distorted and leads in an equally untrue opposite.
And in point of fact I think the NPP has inadvertently provided quite a new arsenal against not only its own evangelical-diversity leanings -- but also against quite a number of versions of modern Christianity. Which is why I've posted in response to the conventional NPP interpretation this way. But of course, a great deal of the NPP has to be the historical situation, in order to make such a claim.
The song I thought of was "Where have all the cowboys gone?"
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