The Truth About Reformed Catholicity
Part of what I suppose is the challenge of an extended writing project like a dissertation is that it really is a process of discovery and finding the courage to say what one intends to say. The difficulty for me is to convince myself (or to simply just force myself, whether I liked it or not) that I am qualified to say what I intend to say. That, yes, I don't have a Ph.D. that might validate what I want to say, but if I don't say it now, that Ph.D. won't be coming. And this takes a long while perhaps to get through, and maybe may not come through until somewhere into the process. Recently, Michael Allen and Scott Swain have been hard at work reconstructing a Reformed catholicity. That is to say, it is a Reformed attempt at retrieving the theological resources from ancient confessions and wisdom as a lens for biblical hermeneutics. That is to say, to read the Scriptures not as individuals, but to read it in the church and, I would add, for t...
