Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Peter Leithart is Exonerated by his Presbytery

This is such good news...I had to copy and paste from Jeff Meyers' blog....for those of you interested in the "Federal Vision" and the PCA, here's some big news: Letters were written. Accusations were made on blogs and in print. Peter Leithart was condemned as theologically heterodox in these letters, blogs, and articles. A few years ago (2004-5) the Pacific Northwest Presbytery (PCA) appointed a committee to look into Peter's theology. Peter is a member of that presbytery. They exonerated him. You can download and read that April 2005 document here. The accusations, however, did not cease. They kept coming. This year his presbytery appointed yet another committee to exam his theology. That committee produced a majority report that concluded that Dr. Leithart was within the bounds of Reformed orthodoxy and a minority report that claimed the opposite. The reports were discussed and debated on the floor of the presbytery last week. The presbytery overwhelmingly voted for the majority report. You can read the majority report, the minority report, and Peter's response here. Make sure you read Peter's careful response at the end. It's worth your time. I'm afraid that this presbytery action will not end the accusations.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Cindy,

I saw your blog post about Peter Leithart and that you included him on your blog list, so I thought I'd just drop a quick comment to let you know that Logos is in the process of publishing 6 Leithart books on our Libronix format. The Libronix platforms allows users to have a fully indexed and searchable version of Leithart's books on their computer.

Just thought it might be something you or your readers might be interested in.

Kind regards
_ryan

Cindy Douglas said...

Thanks for this information, Ryan. I'll pass it along to some folks who'll be interested.
CND