Deeper, Fuller, Eelucidation and Application

Railing against such terms as hypostasis or ousia or persona has done nothing to help the church better express her truth. It has only fed a (now) postmodern mind-set that assumes newer to be better and older to be dead. This mind-set not only is forced to ignore the depth and breadth of scholarship that has been handed down to us, but it also is intent on setting the focus of one's work strictly on oneself. Thus, it remains both historically uninformed and almost irrationally self-absorbed. This way of thinking will never serve the church. The need of the hour is not for the new and the different divorced from the past, but for a deeper, fuller, elucidation and application of what God has taught the church for two millennia.

 

Scott Oliphint. Reasons for Faith: Philosophy in the Service of Theology (Phillipsburg, NJ: PR Publishing, 2006), 0