Theological Progression
In any progressive science, the amount of departure from accepted truth which is possible to the sound thinker becomes thus ever less and less, in proportion as investigation and study result in the progressive establishment of an ever increasing number of facts. The physician who would bring back to-day the medicine of Galen would be no more mad than the theologian who would revive the theology of Clement of Alexandria.
Benjamin B. Warfield, The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield: Studies in Theology, vol. 9 (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2008), 78.