I am a 22-year-old studying English at a secular college in the Mid-West. I have been reading and studying theology since I was fifteen, yet ironically feel no call to the ministry. I average over 40 theological books a year, and I write about it just for fun.
I am a Presbyterian, Postmillennial-Preterist, Six-day creationist, historic Protestant, unashamed fan of N.T. Wright, Federal Visionary, Van Tillian, ecumenical, paedocommunionist, typology and symbolism lovin’, story-reverin’ Christian.
I am also a big fan of kittens.
I was originally a great skeptic of the Federal Vision. Then I went to Alaska to work last summer (2006) and the only room I had in my suitcase was for three books. I brought two I had not yet read. Doug Wilson’s To A Thousand Generations, the Knox Theological Semenary’s Auburn Avenue Theology: Pros and Cons, and my Bible (obviously I had read this one). I read Pros and Cons first. By the fourth paper of the Federal Visionists I was converted. There was something inside of me that leaped for joy reading their work, and the thing I kept thinking over and over was, “This is what I’ve been looking for my whole life.” The quality of their arguments, the charity of their responses, the breath-taking vision they presented, and the lagging attacks scrambling to breathe are what did it, from a human perspective. From God’s perspective, obviously it was Him.
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