The UPC adopted a Declaratory Act in 1879. Below is the Act as proposed by the Committee chaired by John Cairns and the final version approved by the Synod. Most of the changes introduced by the Synod simply made the…
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In Search of the Common Good
A review of Jake Meador, In Search of the Common Good : Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World (IVP, 2019). If you find our culture disorienting and frustrating; if life seems trivial and you long for it to be more…
From the 1882 PCV Declaratory Act to the 1901 PCA Declaratory Statement
The Presbyterian Church of Australia (PCA) holds to the Westminster Confession “read in the light” of a Declaratory Statement (DS) adopted when the Church was formed in 1901. There is a range of views about the intent and effect of…
The PCA Declaratory Statement
The Basis of Union of the Presbyterian Church of Australia (adopted in 1901) sets out the confessional position of the Church. The Supreme Standard is “the Word of God contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments”. The…
Are non-Jews condemned for idolatry in the Old Testament?
This post is a hunch about the Old Testament. I’m very happy to be corrected, especially if there is a passage that I have over looked! At the end of his speech in Athens Paul says God has overlooked (hupereidon)…