Comments for Setting the Record Straight at http://www.pres-outlook.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.pres-outlook.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:07:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pres-outlook.com/insights-opinions/blog/Setting-the-Record-Straight.html#comment-4438 Dear Professor Jinkins, Thank you for your very clear theological analysis. You've done a great job of presenting the problem to which members of the Presbytery of Boston last year addressed the overture which is now before the presbyteries as Amendment 08-B. Obedience to Jesus Christ as Head of the Church is a messy proposition, fraught with mystery and mortal peril. The call of "obedience to scripture" and "conformity to the confessions" offers a deceptively simple alternative: clear answers and bright line rules. However, as you remind us, scripture and confessions are themselves full of ambiguity; they seem by design to reflect the mystery of the one to whom they point as guides and subordinate standards. Our primary intent in offering the overture was to at least set the record straight on which mystery demands our ultimate devotion. And, with God's grace, perhaps to do little better job of preserving what you describe as the "tensions" of orthodoxy. I must also offer my thanks to Presbyterians Today. Without their mangling of your words, and your need to publish them here, I'm sure I never would have had the opportunity to read them! - Elliott Hipp Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:08:53 +0100