For all you Reformed guys interested in Federal Vision issues and Anglican beliefs, check out the series of blog posts Peter Toon has about infant baptism, baptismal regeneration, the covenant, etc. You may find it interesting.
Link to Toon's blog
An excerpt:
One may close with a historical footnote. I wrote in 1979 these words and I still think what I said is true: “It would appear that because of the intensity of feeling raised by the Gorham controversy there developed in [Anglican] Evangelicalism such a fear of baptismal regeneration ex opera operato that gradually all views involving full baptismal regeneration were given up and thus part of evangelical belief at the end of the nineteenth century was the denial of baptismal regeneration.” And what was true in 1900 seems to be true also in 2007!
Link to Toon's blog
An excerpt:
One may close with a historical footnote. I wrote in 1979 these words and I still think what I said is true: “It would appear that because of the intensity of feeling raised by the Gorham controversy there developed in [Anglican] Evangelicalism such a fear of baptismal regeneration ex opera operato that gradually all views involving full baptismal regeneration were given up and thus part of evangelical belief at the end of the nineteenth century was the denial of baptismal regeneration.” And what was true in 1900 seems to be true also in 2007!
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