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My friend Red Robbo has an excellent piece reflecting on the recent fall of the Church of Scotland into institutionalized apostacy here
As a Scot recently landed in the States Seeking a Better Country was invaluable in navigating the complex history of American Presbyterianism from its earliest days to the present. What has stuck with me is the abiding legacy of the Old Side/New Side and Old School/New School divisions in contemporary conservative presbyterian denominations.
The Old School and New School continue to delineate the faultlines, in the PCA at least. I wonder what, if anything, the PCA can learn from the past on these matters? Is the Old School doomed to smug obscurity and the New School doomed to a pragmatic slide into cultural compromise?
“Hence, the world, from its heights to its depths, is like a mirror to compel us to contemplate God, who is by nature and in essence invisible.” (Calvin, Sermons on Genesis 1-11, Banner of Truth, p1)
