Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I came across this rather strange observation in Thomas E. Peck’s discussion of theistic evolution. Can anyone shed some light on the matter?
[Francis] Turretin's doctrine of "concursus" seemed to my immediate predecessor in this chair in Union Seminary (and I agree with him) to be fatal to the holiness of God and to the free agency of man or of any intelligent creature. Yet Turretin was used as a text-book, and many Reformed theologians who held the same doctrine were recommended to the students as safe guides.
Thomas E. Peck, ‘Science and Revelation’ (c. 1887) in Miscellanies of Rev. Thomas E. Peck, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Theology in the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, ed. T. C. Johnson (3 vols, Richmond VA: The Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1896), 2: 34-35.
[Francis] Turretin's doctrine of "concursus" seemed to my immediate predecessor in this chair in Union Seminary (and I agree with him) to be fatal to the holiness of God and to the free agency of man or of any intelligent creature. Yet Turretin was used as a text-book, and many Reformed theologians who held the same doctrine were recommended to the students as safe guides.
Thomas E. Peck, ‘Science and Revelation’ (c. 1887) in Miscellanies of Rev. Thomas E. Peck, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Theology in the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, ed. T. C. Johnson (3 vols, Richmond VA: The Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1896), 2: 34-35.