The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Volume 1

In January 2002, four Reformed ministers spoke at a pastors conference in Monroe, Louisiana. A few months later, the Reformed world and the Internet blew up with heresy accusations (and condemnations) and heated debates over the theology presented at the conference. Two names stuck--the name of a conference, The Federal Vision, and the name of the host church, Auburn Avenue.In April 2004, one of the four ministers, Douglas Wilson, set up shop at Blog & Mablog (dougwils.com), and over the next thirteen years wrote over a third of a million words on the Federal Vision theology and surrounding controversy, all of which have been collected in this volume.From the Introduction: "It must be confessed that this thing is kind of a slab of theological controversial writing, and so I do confess it. But at the same time, I believe there is a lot of edifying theology here--distinctions that the Reformed used to make still need to be made as long as the people of God need to be pastored. I trust that the experience of reading this will be edifying over all. Don't try to get through it in one sitting."Volume One contains the Introduction as well as posts written between April 2004 and July 2007.