Mark Horne » Blog Archive » The “drunken uncle” didn’t seem to think it struck at those “vitals”.
Following up the obvious observation that paedocommunion, while not agreed to by Reformed Confessions or notable Reformed Theologians before this century, with one exception…
- The best paper on the history of paedocommunion is here.
- The best paper on the theology of paedocommunion is here.
- Both papers were submitted and received in the mid -90s by a PCA presbytery to as part of the requirement that allowed a candidate for the ministry to be ordained.
- Anti-paedocommunionism is incoherent: (1) Many of the defenses of “the traditional view” actually repudiate the traditional view and adopt a novel scheme which implies we all should have been paedocommunionists until recently. (2) Thus, there is no exegetical position to require to “force” a paedocommunionist to sound like an anti-paedocommunionist, (3) Yet traditioalist and innovative anti-paedocommunionists both assume the role of defenders of a tradition even while the entire basis is contradicted by their alliance.
- Etc.. more later.
Mark, did you mean for the first two bullets to use the same link?
Aah, I think the second is meant to be http://reformed.org/sacramentology/tl_paedo2.html. Please feel free to delete my comments.
Oh, how schweet it is, to point out that you have a justification problem…. 😉
Fixed it.
Not on my browser, you didn’t. Third to last line of fourth bullet point is still a mess. That “anti-paedocommunionist” thing is deadly.
“a justification problem…”
Finally realized what you were referring to! 😉
Yes, Mark fixed the link but not the justification…a few optional hyphens are needed!