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I recall a conversation with a highly intelligent RC student who was asking me some very specific questions about the logic of the Lutheran view of predestination relative to a specific passage in the Summa. When I shifted the conversation to Ephesians 1, arguing that the position was derived from an exegesis of the text rather than philosophical coherence, he looked at me like I had two heads. After more time talking about the issue, it became apparent that he had never actually wrestled with the issue Biblically on anything but the most surface level. He didn't even know what Ephesians 1 was about until I read it to him.
This gets at a problem I see often among young students of theology today. There is extensive knowledge of certain elements of the history of dogma (a good thing), but almost no engagement with the Biblical text itself. This direct engagement with the Biblical text really is what is most appealing about the Reformation.
Scott R. Swain@scottrswain
What is most attractive about Reformed theology is its exegesis. In the Reformed tradition, there's an intelligent, and often creative, appropriation of the best of Christian philosophy. But, at the end of the day, a tradition stands or falls on its exegesis of Holy Scripture.
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