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This implies that Reformed biblico-systematic theology operates both in constructive and polemical ways. The constructive task without the polemical function is blind; the polemical function without the constructive task is empty. Both aspects of biblico-systematic theology need all the emphasis we can give them, so that we avoid the Scylla of Post-Conservative Evangelicalism, which casts a contemptuous eye at confessional Reformed orthodoxy, on the one hand, and the Charybdis of Reformed traditionalism, resolute in polemics against heterodox innovations, yet resistant to authentic advancements within the Reformed tradition based on faithful biblical exegesis, on the other hand.