My opinion of pending

I like the new blog topic -- a tricky and much neglected one.  As most of you will no doubt know, pending is, strictly speaking, a heterodoxy, an error, not a full blown heresy (see the section on `Total pending' in L Berkhof, Systematic Theology (3rd ed)., pp. 236-38), more associated with the with the Augustinian Trinitarian trajectory than with that of the East (though this is somewhat oversimplified as a characterization -- see C Van Til,  Pending: The Even Newer Modernism than the Last One, vol.6, p.25).   Thus, while I would be unhappy with any office bearer arguing for it at a session meeting or on the floor of presbytery, an ordinary member committed to it might be tolerated, providing he or she was open to instruction.   Reminds me of the old Huguenot pastoral saying, `Patent pending' -- `Let those who pend be open' -- presumably to persuasion of their error.