The Confession of Our Faith

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We’re honored to be talking with not one, but two Van Dixhoorns today. Chad Van Dixhoorn is a church history professor and pastor. He’s written a book entitled Confessing the Faith, a reader’s guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith. His wife Emily is a mother of five and among other things teaches women’s Bible studies. She’s written a study guide for Confessing the Faith. The two books are meant to introduce Christians with the Confession in an easy-to-read format.What’s the purpose of a confession anyway? The Van Dixhoorns get right to it, emphasizing the richness of our historical heritage and the many ways we can profit from it.Can a document written in the 17th century be pastorally helpful with the tricky ethical questions we struggle with? Does it mention in vitro fertilization, the legitimacy of some medical treatments, or gay marriage? Not directly, but it provides us with foundational principles to answer these questions. Pull up a chair and join us around the Van Dixhoorns kitchen table.We’re giving away some copies of Confessing the Faith reader’s guide and Confessing the Faith study guide. The books are a generous gift from our friends at Banner of Truth. Please enter for a chance to win a copy. But if you don’t, please access our Reformed Resources to purchase one. It’s well worth it!Show NotesThe Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1653) - Chad's work.The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1653) - Emily's multi-purpose use of Chad's work. God’s Ambassador: The Westminster Assembly and the Reformation of the English Pulpit (1643-1653)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.8	Thank you. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin, the regular podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:50.0	My name's Carl Truman.
0:51.6	I'm here with my regular co-hosts, Amy Bird, the Housewife Theologian, and Todd Pruitt,
0:57.3	mega-church pastor, Joel Osteen of the PCA, as he likes to be called.
1:02.3	And today we have a couple of special guests.
1:05.6	We have somebody who goes by the rather grand title of the Chancellor's Professor of Historical Theology.
1:12.7	I've merely made it to being the Paul Woolley Professor of Church History, but this man is the Chancellor's Professor of Historical Theology at Reform Theological Seminary, Chad Van Dixhorn, a graduate, I have to say, of that great university in the east of England, the University of Cambridge,
1:28.6	where his PhD was on the minutes of the General Assembly of the OPC.
1:35.3	No, same thing.
1:36.5	It was like the first General Assembly of the OPC.
1:39.0	The minutes of the Westminster Assembly of the 17th century, out of which a multi-volume scholarly publication from
1:46.4	Oxford University Press came a few years ago, which has really transformed in many ways the
1:52.4	landscape of studies of 17th century English reform theology. And Chad is also a pastor in the greatest Presbyterian denomination, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
2:05.6	And he's here with his constant companion who has an equally grand title.
2:10.8	She is Mrs. Emily Van Dixhorn, who likes to be described as a wife and a mother of five who does not homeschool.
2:19.3	So it's great to have you both on the podcast today.
2:22.6	I support homeschoolers.
2:25.2	Yes.
2:27.1	Yeah, no need.
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