Ligon Duncan is the Senior Minister of First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi, and Adjunct Professor at Reformed Theological Seminary. Here he explains his worries over a new movement within Reformed theology.
What is the Federal Vision?
Those friendly with or involved in the Federal Vision (FV) would say that it is a conversation not a movement. But it has enough identifiable characteristics to be able to describe it.
For some years now there has been a handful of voices on the margins of the American Reformed community advocating for theological revision. Concerned that the Reformed churches have been too influenced by revivalism and rationalism, and believing the traditional Reformed doctrine itself has not escaped the blind-spots of its contexts, these men have articulated a need for Reformed pastors and churches to undertake some serious theological reassessment.
