Men with Chests

On “Sola Scriptura”

“Whereas speculative metaphysics obscured Scripture in the medieval church,  today it is often the speculative behavioral and social sciences that claim priority in contemporary discussion.  Thus, even where a high doctrine of inspiration is maintained, the biblical categories of sin and grace are often replaced with therapeutic categories, such as dysfunction and recovery, or the ‘is’ of statistical averages defining the ‘ought’ of ecclesial health.  In an effort to be relevant, ‘contextualization’ often becomes an excuse for compromise, realized or not, and this is due not only to a lack of serious theological reflection, but also to the numbing effects of modernity.  Few actually declare that they are going to march to a different drummer, but the theological shallowness of evangelicalism is hardly a match for the incessant stream of consciousness that gushes from the broken cisterns of modern and postmodern society.”

~ Michael S. Horton, “Here We Stand”, Ed. James Montgomery Boice and Benjamin E. Sasse, R&R Publishing, 2004,  pg.104