pilgrim people

Francis Beckwith, the former president of the Evangelical Theological Society who recently reverted to Rome, told Christianity Today that he has "no doubt that the New Perspective and Federal Vision have had an effect on the Protestant-Catholic debate," and that the movements have helped Protestants make the journey to Rome. "I have met several former evangelical Protestants who have told me that Wright's work in particular helped them to better appreciate the Catholic view of grace."

Taylor Marshall, a Westminster Philly grad and Protestant-turned-Romanist goes so far to say, "If you buy into Wright's approach to covenantal theology, then you've already taken three steps toward the Catholic Church. Keep following the trail and you'll be Catholic." Marshall, now a PhD student at University of Dallas, attributes Wright's work to helping him conclude that the Reformed doctrine of justification sola fide was a departure from Scripture. You can read it here in the CT article.

Note carefully what Marshall says regarding buying into Wright's covenant theology. Essentially what he is referring to is a collapse of the Abrahamic d Mosaic covenants into one and a flattening of the contours of redemptive history from old covenant to the new. Whenever such flattening out or monocovenantalism occurs, the distinction between law and gospel is inevitably blurred and the necessity of Christ's active obedience imputed to the believer denied, at lease to some degree.  

So there you have it: straight from the horse's mouth. Now, will those within confessional bodies who are sympathetic to the FV and NPP please shew the horse away or get on it and mosey on out of town? That horse has no place hitched to the post of confessional Reformed churches.