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Philosophical Biblicism: The Teaching of The Westminster Confession Concerning God, The Natural Man, and Revelation and Authority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Charles K. Robinson
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The thesis of the present essay is that the Westminster Confession represents a synthesis, unique among documents of confessional status and authority, of two intellectual and spiritual motifs which, at first look, might appear to represent almost opposite extremes: thoroughgoing philosophical rigor and radical biblicism. I shall undertake to explicate this thesis by an analysis of three areas of doctrine: those concerning God (including Christology), the so-called ‘natural man’, and revelation and authority. Under each of these three headings I shall present certain relevant material from the XXXIX Articles as a background ‘foil’ against which the contrasts as well as the similarities of the Westminster Confession may perhaps stand out more clearly.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 1965 , pp. 23 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1965

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page 24 note 1 Schaff, Philip, The Creeds of Christendom, With a History and Critical Notes (sixth edition—revised and enlarged, 3 vols.; New York: Harper [1952]), I, 624–625.Google Scholar

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