Confessions of Faith and the WRF Statement of Faith: Why?

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Abouts this Course (WRF-ACA-#01)

This series explores the importance of confessional documents in the Reformed tradition and then offers an engaging expopsition of the main features of the World Reformed Fellowship Statement of Faith.

Instructor: Rev. Professor Andrew McGowan

Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Reformed Felloship.

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About Andrew McGowan

The Rev Professor Andrew McGowan is a Church of Scotland minister and Professor Emeritus in the University of the Highlands and Islands.  Professor McGowan studied at Aberdeen University (BD and PhD) and the Union Theological Seminary in New York, USA (STM).  After serving for sixteen years in parish ministry, he was Principal of the Highland Theological College from its inception in 1994 until 2009.  He then served as a parish minister in Inverness for ten years before becoming Director of the Rutherford Centre for Reformed Theology.  He held that appointment for five years, retiring in 2024.

Professor McGowan is Vice Chairman of the World Reformed Fellowship and chairs its Theological Commission.  He previously chaired the committee which organises the Edinburgh Dogmatics Conference and served for a number of years as President of the Scottish Evangelical Theology Society.  Andrew is married to June and they have three married sons and three grandsons.

Main Publications:

  1. The Federal Theology of Thomas Boston (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1997).
  2. Always Reforming: Explorations in Systematic Theology (Leicester: IVP, 2006).
  3. The Divine Spiration of Scripture: Challenging Evangelical Perspectives (Nottingham: IVP, 2007).
  4. The Person and Work of Christ (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2012).
  5. Adam, Christ and Covenant: Exploring Headship Theology (Nottingham: Apollos, 2016).

Recent Publications:

  • ‘Human Sexuality and Christian Anthropology’ in Thomas A. Noble, Sarah K. Whittle & Philip S. Johnston (eds), Marriage, Family and Relationships: Biblical, Doctrinal and Contemporary Perspectives (London: Apollos, 2017) 174-189.
  • ‘Inerrancy’ in Balázs M. Mezei, Francesca Aran Murphy, and Kenneth Oakes (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation (Oxford: OUP, 2021) 85-101.
  • ‘James Orr’ in Tom Noble (ed) British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century (London: IVP, 2022), 11-32.
  • ‘Torrance and the Doctrine of Scripture’ in Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps (eds) Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2023).
  • Editor: Engaging Ecclesiology (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2023).
  • Editor: The New Reformed Book of Common Order (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2023).
  • Editor: The World Reformed Fellowship Statement of Faith (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2024).
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