Today, in the Adult Class at OURC I began a series of talks explaining the “Nine Points” of “pastoral advice” adopted by URCNA Synod Schereville in 2007. Here is the first 30 minute talk:
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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Dr Clark,
Thank you for posting this for everyone’s benefit. You make a comment early in this talk about not being entirely sure why they chose “federal” to self-identify. In reading through O. Palmer Robertson’s The Justification Controversy and Guy Prentiss Waters’ The Federal Vision and Covenant Theology, I keep seeing this phrase from Norman Shepherd repeated by the Federal Visionists: “…but when seen through the lens of the covenant…” (emphasis mine). As you know, federal comes from foedus, or covenant–so perhaps their entire enterprise is meant explicitly to recast the Trinity, soteriology, ecclesiology, family, and society at large “…as seen through the lens of the covenant,” or, as seen through a “federal vision.”
Just a thought from the peanut gallery.
Aron