Comments on: Cessationism

By: Tim Collins

Tim Collins — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:37:31 +0000

I appreciate this as a thoughtful discussion from a Reformed perspective with someone who comes out of a Pentecostal background. However, I am afraid I found (and I may be alone in this!) that it fails to provide any solid exegetical basis for cessationism (here’s where I will be told to read the book–fair enough), and tends to respond to straw men. Not all charismatics are represented by this discussion. There are plenty of charismatics who understand the primacy of scripture without falling into the fallacies described. It would be a nice addition to this discussion to have a discussion with Gordon Fee or Craig Keener rather than with someone who has rejected the continuationist position.

By: Philip T Mohr

Philip T Mohr — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:11:28 +0000

Thanks for the helpful summary of Gaffinian cessationism.

I wish that there could be more interaction with the work of Poythress (e..g, https://frame-poythress.org/modern-spiritual-gifts-as-analogous-to-apostolic-gifts-affirming-extraordinary-works-of-the-spirit-within-cessationist-theology/) and Duguid (see Iain M. Duguid, “What Kind of Prophecy Continues? Defining the Differences Between Continuationism and Cessationism,” in Redeeming the Life of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Vern Poythress, ed. John M. Frame, Wayne Grudem, and John J. Hughes [Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017], 112–28).

Gaffin’s Perspectives on Pentecost is commendable and groundbreaking, but it is also somewhat of a sketch. Poythress and Duguid—while agreeing with Gaffin on all the fundamentals—develop the cessationist position with a more nuanced and, I think, a wider-angle look through the lenses of biblical theology and the history of Reformed theology.

Thoughts?

By: Michael Delahunt

Michael Delahunt — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:53:31 +0000

In reply to Michael Delahunt. sorry, 34 minute mark.

By: Michael Delahunt

Michael Delahunt — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:51:59 +0000

Camden’s insight around the 33 minute mark describes John Piper well. Certainly he has said many things that support a Reformed view of the sufficiency of Scripture. However, Ask Pastor John interviews really capture what Camden has said. This sort of thinking is really gotten into Reformedish and Reformed churches.