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Doug Wilson’s Role in the Federal Vision Controversy

Posts documenting and analyzing Wilson’s role in the Federal Vision movement, including doctrinal controversies surrounding baptism, justification, and perseverance.

“Raise your hand if you knew that the Westminster Confession taught baptismal regeneration...Baptism means that the one baptized has a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, has been grafted into Christ, has the sign and seal of regeneration and forgiveness of sins, and has the obligation to walk in newness of life...baptism is efficacious. But the efficacy of the sacrament is not tied to the moment when it is administered. By means of baptism, this efficacious grace is conferred on the elect at the appropriate time, the time of conversion, and it is the applied grace of their baptism.” — Doug Wilson In this Calvinistic sense, baptism offers a twofold grace: forgiveness of sins and regeneration. In this limited sense, we can say that Calvin held to baptismal regeneration. But he also believed in the effectual call, and he knew (being a good Calvinist, perhaps even the best) that this effectual call could precede or follow the moment of baptism. — Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson Still Affirms Federal Vision

Doug Wilson Says ‘I Have Decided’ to ‘Discontinue Identifying Myself’ with ‘Federal Vision,’ but I Still ‘Affirm Everything I Signed Off on in the Federal Vision Statement’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson dropped the 'Federal Vision' label but still affirms everything he signed. Multiple denominations have declared his theology heretical.

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“I have decided, after mulling over it for some years now, to discontinue identifying myself with what has come to be called the federal vision....This statement represents a change in what I will call what I believe. It does not represent any substantial shift or sea change in the content of what I believe....I would still want [sic] affirm everything I signed off on in the Federal Vision statement.” — Doug Wilson “...I consider the understanding of the objectivity of the covenant [Federal Vision] to be a theological breakthrough.” – Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson Declared to be heretic

Doug Wilson Says We ‘Were Declared to Be Heretics’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson admits he and three others 'were declared to be heretics' by a Reformed denomination. Read about the Federal Vision and why churches condemned it.

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“On June 22, 2002...the four of us were declared to be heretics.” – Doug Wilson
Salvation Contingent on Faithfulness

Doug Wilson Says ‘Men Fall Away Because Their Salvation Was Contingent upon Continued Faithfulness in the Gospel’

(Updated on ) | Opinion by Nathan Wells

Doug Wilson says 'salvation was contingent upon continued faithfulness.' Does this align with Scripture or undermine salvation by grace alone through faith?

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