The second coming of Charles Chauncy

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Some of you may be familiar with Donald Macleod. Recently, he made some remarks in a newspaper column in Scotland which caught my attention, in light of what I have been saying around here for some time now, about the need for the Presbyterian church to flee from the Evangelical Babylon. After noting that Evangelicals are admittedly good at filling churches, Prof. Macleod warns:

“But we Presbyterians are not Evangelicals. We are Protestants, whose roots lie not in the Great Awakening, but in the Reformation.

Two things haunt me. One is a remark made by a speaker at a recent theological conference. Protestantism, he said, now has no institutional representation in America. The myriad Evangelical churches are not Protestant. The mainline Presbyterian churches are not Protestant. The great seminaries are not Protestant.

Our identity must lie in our Protestantism, with the caveat that can never mean mere anti-Catholicism. Even less can it mean sectarian bigotry. Any true Protestantism will deplore and denounce bigotry, as it will all other forms of hatred of our neighbor.”

Conservative Presbyterians and Anglicans (Reformed Catholics) should come out and be separate from the Evangelical Babylon. We need to reclaim our Protestant roots, and in so doing, we will also restore our rightful Catholic heritage.

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This is very revealing for the realignment that Paul Owen is proposing. His roots supposedly lie in the Reformation rather than the Great Awakening. The great American seminaries aren’t Protestant. We have no Protestant denominations either.

Instead, “conservative” Presbyterians & Anglicans should separate from Evangelical “Babylon.”

So Dr. Owen has sided with Charles Chauncy. For Dr. Owen, Rome isn’t the Scarlet Woman--or even the LDS.

No, the Scarlet Woman consists of such wanton whoremongers as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Daniel Rowland, William Pantycelyn, John MacArthur, the late James Boice, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the OPC, the PCA, the SBC, RTS, Westminster/Philly, SBTS, DTS, and the Old Princeton theology. (Remember, Princeton was a New Light seminary.)

BTW, Anglicans don’t generally regard themselves as Protestant, do they? That’s why they leave Anglicanism for the Catholic church or the Orthodox church rather than a Lutheran church like the LCMS or WELS.