A Question of Consensus

From the beginning, the Westminster Confessions position on assurance has been a subject of controversy. In this exciting new work, Jonathan Master considers the Westminster Confessions statements on assurance as a position of consensus among a diversity of viewpoints. By tracing how the idea was expanded and modifiedeven by the documents own authors!in very distinct ways, the work highlights the importance of the understandings flowing out of Westminster and raises important questions about confession and doctrinal freedom in the growing Reformed tradition.