This decline accompanied a quarter century of institutional drift. The seminary has still not recovered from the ideological and theological disruptions of the late 1960's. By the time the Vietnam War ended in 1975, Cornelius Van Til had retired, and the seminary no longer spoke with a unified voice, or spoke much at all, for that matter. A Reformed Critique is the seminary's theological self-justification for not having presented a systematic challenge to the humanist order in this generation. This is why Zondervan was willing to publish it.
Biblical law is an offense.
An Informed Response is a mopping-up operation. Theonomy and Its Critics . The authors challenge the Westminster's faculty's assertion that biblical civil law is no longer binding in the New Covenant era, especially its mandated negative civil sanctions against convicted criminals. The theologians and public representatives of traditional Christianity have yet to answer this question forthrightly. It is as if the question were illegitimate, and embarrassing breach of etiquette.