The PCA’s Leithart Decision (1)
This article examines the 2013 PCA Standing Judicial Committee's decision to exonerate Peter Leithart despite charges that his Federal Vision theology violates the Westminster Standards. Langerak argues that the SJC's determination that Leithart's differences were merely "semantic" effectively allowed heretical doctrine to be promoted within the denomination, raising critical questions about doctrinal accountability and church discipline in the PCA.
In a landmark decision on March 7, 2013, the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) exonerated federal vision (FV) heretic Peter Leithart. The decision has been a long time coming. In 2007 the PCA adopted a report on the FV. Since then the Peter Leithart case has been going on at various levels in the PCA, notably his lengthy trial last year in his own Pacific Northwest Presbytery (PNWP), in which he was acquitted. One member of the presbytery, a ruling elder, appealed the case to the PCA's...
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