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The Westminster Confession stands as an important part of the church’s theological dialogue, shaping those in the Reformed tradition. John Leith focuses on the background and character of the assembly that wrote this document. After placing the Confession in its historical, political, cultural, and theological contexts, Leith examines its major themes—the Bible, the lordship and sovereignty of...

with remarkable logical clarity and is true to all the theological angles and nuances. The Confession is amazingly complete and comprehensive. It combines doctrine and practice. No theology today achieves this high level of technical competence. Yet the irony of the Westminster Assembly’s work was that its very greatness was its downfall. History soon demonstrated that the Confession was too precise and too comprehensive. It was more logical than either divine revelation or man’s experience, and
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