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Please consider the following and comment:

At ReformedCatholicism.com, the following was posted:

Well, for the first time in a year or so, Douglas Wilson has actually responded to a post I’ve written reacting to an article he wrote in Credenda/Agenda. Not only that, but he and Randy Booth fired off their double-barreled cap gun approach–instantly denouncing me and my comments. Lots of noise, no substance. Randy Booth, with the characteristic polite Southern dismissal typical of a Confederate officer you might see on Gone With the Wind (it is, after all, the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches!), even called me a fly! :)

I’m not going to respond directly to Wilson’s comments because any legalist can claim what Wilson has claimed. What? Did I forget that he did mention love and Christ and fervent devotion to a “triune personalism”–really, what does that have to do with anything? The Mormons claim such things and yet their gospel is undoubtedly legalistic. What legalist ever thinks that he engages in legalism?

No, Douglas Wilson is no legalist. He doesn’t teach legalism. For example, it’s not legalism to make sure you have the name and phone number of the pastor of any person who ever makes a negative comment on your blog and then ban those who won’t provide such information. It’s not legalism to insist that the only people who have any say in your congregation are men. Women can’t vote or hold any real position of leadership. Never mind what the Bible says. It’s not legalism to claim that parents are at fault for the mistakes of their grown children. It’s not legalism to personally attack almost anyone who strongly disagrees with you. It’s not legalism to insist that all children must either be homeschooled or classically trained in just right academies. It’s not legalism to blanketly condemn people who put their children in public schools. It’s not legalism to portray public schools as evil tools of the government. It’s not legalism to insist that “covenant renewal” worship is the only way to properly worship God. Never mind that all worship is covenant renewal worship, not just the stuff practiced with the utmost zeal in the CREC. It’s not legalism to interfere with the congregational polity of others when your by-laws say otherwise. It’s not legalism to say that slavery in the South was acceptable. It’s not legalism to further claim that slavery is a biblical idea based on the law of God. It’s not legalism to think that because Christ’s Lordship extends over all things that somehow that means you can offer commentary on anything and expect people to agree to your supposedly prophetic word on the matter and when they don’t you can institute disciplinary proceedings. It’s not legalism to claim that children are denied grace if they can’t partake of communion. It’s not legalism to…well…I’m guessing you get the idea.

Nah. Not legalistic at all. I am obviously completely mistaken. HAH!

The tirade speaks for itself.  And for those who have heard and read Douglas Wilson, you will recognize that these claims are either Biblically correct (not the legalism Mr. Johnson claims them to be) or Pastor Wilson has been misrepresented.  At any rate, the spirit of his post continues in his defensive responses in the comments which follow it.

Question is, which of these (his above post) or the following quote from John Anderson in his 2004 Auburn Avenue Church Conference message titled “How to Practice Catholicity” truly exemplifies the reformed catholicity he preaches?

http://bounddragon.com/__oneclick_uploads/2007/07/armstrong-on-wilson-64.mp3

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