Although published in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Westminster Confession of Faith remains one of the most important confessional standards in existence. It, along with the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, is the confessional standard of numerous denominations such as the OPC, the PCA, and the ARP. The Confession did not, however, appear in a vacuum. Just as it is important to understand the Arminian controversy if one is to fully understand the Canons of the Syno

My friend Dr. Lane Tipton contacted me yesterday informing me that a post I had written titled "Are All Van Tillians Equal?" suggested that he was or is sympathetic to the serious theological errors of Scott Oliphint regarding the attributes of God. I thought I had made it clear in that post that neither he, Camden Bucey, nor myself were or are sympathetic to Oliphint's teaching on those doctrines, but I was wrong. It wasn't 100% clear to every reader. So I apologize to Dr. T

I don’t know how many times I have read chapters 2 and 3 of the Proslogion since my time in college, but the number is large. I had to read those chapters in philosophy classes and in theology classes. I had to read them several times during my time in seminary, and I’ve read them numerous times since then. Never was I assigned the entirety of the Proslogion , but eventually I read it on my own. I don't think I was ever completely sure how to fit all of the pieces together,

In my response to the second part of the Reformed Forum’s ongoing critique of my book on Cornelius Van Til, I touched briefly on their claim that not all Van Tillians agree in their interpretation of Van Til. I had already acknowledged this in the introduction to my book when I briefly surveyed six different schools of Van Tillianism, but there is a bit more to say on this point. Consider for a moment the fact that some eighty years ago, Van Til dropped a bomb in the American