Mrs. Curmudgeon and I are in Chicago with Canadian Pastor and Canadian Pastor's Wife for the Gospel Coalition 2011 conference, as my annual sabbatical. It's already worth the trip: the kind fellows at the Accordance exhibition booth helped me figure out how to set up my search text displays.
Al Mohler, president of The (I didn't know the definite article was capitalized until reading the conference booklet) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary gave the opening lecture or sermon, presenting the argument for a redemptive historical reading of the Old Testament from John 5:31ff. In one breath, he gave credit, in order, to Geerhardus Vos, Richard Gaffin, and Edmund Clowney. It was like being at a Westminster Theological Seminary (in California, of course) alumni rally.
One might be tempted to ask why a man who could only quote presbyterians in making his hermeneutical arguments would still refuse to baptize babies, but one wouldn't want to sound like a curmudgeon.
Al Mohler, president of The (I didn't know the definite article was capitalized until reading the conference booklet) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary gave the opening lecture or sermon, presenting the argument for a redemptive historical reading of the Old Testament from John 5:31ff. In one breath, he gave credit, in order, to Geerhardus Vos, Richard Gaffin, and Edmund Clowney. It was like being at a Westminster Theological Seminary (in California, of course) alumni rally.
One might be tempted to ask why a man who could only quote presbyterians in making his hermeneutical arguments would still refuse to baptize babies, but one wouldn't want to sound like a curmudgeon.
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