Bound to the Past and to A Living Confession « Heidelblog

This is a significant statement because it summarizes a widely held approach to the Reformed confessions. As Bob Godfrey has pointed out somewhere the fundamental mistake of this approach is that confuses the confessions with systematic theology. It fails to reckon with a fundamental difference between the two. A systematic theology is private enterprise. Documents such as the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity are public documents. They are selective statements by Christ’s church. We may be “sympathetically critical” toward a systematic theology, but not toward the church’s confession.

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Bound to the Past and to A Living Confession « Heidelblog