Ever wonder whence the split Ps and broken Rs come? Here’s a great interview with WSC’s Darryl Hart on the Presbyterian and Reformed family tree.
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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Most interestingly, there is a glaring contradiction between the biblical piety that informs the sort of Reformed ‘denominating’ that confessionalists uphold, and the latitudinarian ersatz ecumenicism of “open communion” that Darryl recommends at the end.
It is impossible to properly reconcile these two impulses. The latter is precisely what causes erosion of the first. Darryl indicates that he senses the contradiction, but hasn’t come to terms with it yet.
Rev. John Anderson (c.1748 – 1830) offers some help on this:
http://tiny.cc/ctoats
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http://honest2blog.blogspot.com/2010/04/recovering-reformed-communion-2.html