Andrew Jones (TallSkinnyKiwi), perhaps the best known Emerging Church blogger in the world, posted his evaluation of our Student Association forum this past weekend after reading the lecture notes and transcripts posted on this blog and several others. We’re still hearing cheers and jeers from Westminster students (mostly cheers in my ears), but I’ve been [...]

I invited my friend and Westminster classmate John Eddy to adapt a comment he wrote on another blog into a “guest blog” here on Sacred Journey. When he’s not sharing a beer with me, John currently serves as Executive Director of the new Gospel & Culture Project at WTS.

Listening to Scot McKnight’s talk last Thursday [...]

The “official” recordings of all the main sessions from the Westminster Theological Seminary Student Association Forum on the Emerging Church are now available at Westminster Bookstore (www.wtsbooks.com). Click on the “Emerging Church Conference” link in the left-hand menu or use the link below.
As of this posting, the 8-CD complete set is available for $40 and [...]

This is the final installment of my notes from the 2006 Westminster Theological Seminary Student Association Forum on the Emerging Church.
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Dr. Dan McCartney is professor of New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary
McCartney opened by telling us that he had been asked to present the “classical” view of penal substitution [...]

I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Scot McKnight (blog) has asked me to make available the full, original text of his first address to the Westminster Theological Seminary Student Association Forum An Eternal Word in an ‘Emerging World’? Download the PDF version of his manuscript using the link below:
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I’m establishing this post as a place to link to the various post-forum reflections going on on the web. I’ll add links as I find them.
First, let me say that we all owe a great debt to Tony Stiff and all the members of the WTS Student Association who made this conference happen!
Conference organizer Tony [...]

As I noted below, I played hookie from the forum today in order to spend time with my grandkids. The two who live in North Carolina are here with the three who live right here on the WTS campus. Ben Inman is cute with the pony tail and all, but my grandkids easily won out [...]

Address to the WTS Emerging Church Forum
October 27, 2006
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Jesus Christ died with us, instead of us, and for us. He was our substitution, and his death brought manifold benefits. We need all three categories identification, substitution, and benefaction to properly understand the atonement. The Scriptures are clear: the Father [...]

John Franke 10/27 10:30 a.m.
Notes on his address to the Westminster Theological Seminary Emerging Church Forum
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Franke concedes that Horton was right about much of his critique of Franke’s conceptions of protestant orthodoxy, especially in nto having referred to everything in Reformed scholasticism. Like sports reporters, you’re often called upon [...]

Address to the 2006 Westminster Theological Seminary Student Association Forum on the Emerging Church
Dr. Michael Horton 10/27/2006 9 am
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Note: Please be aware that Horton came on rapid fire with many quotations and citations of sources to back up his assertions that I simply could not catch in my notes. [...]