Cut some of the leading evangelical writers of the last decades and they bleed Socinus—without even knowing his name. For example, Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology, the most widely read text of its kind in English-speaking conservative evangelical circles, rejects eternal generation of the Son via a very narrow anti-metaphysical biblicism divorced from any engagement with the catholic tradition on that point. Eternal generation is, of course, a lynchpin of Nicene Trinitarianism and so, while such evangelicals may be far from Socinianism on many points of doctrine, in their narrow biblicism and disdain for historical theology, they are methodologically its heirs. Read more»
Carl Trueman, “Turning Inward,” First Things (December, 2020)
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- A Response To Grudem’s Appeal To Hodge On Eternal Subordination
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- Notable Interpretations Of 1 Corinthians 11:3
- Augustine Contra Biblicism
- One Way To Escape Biblicism
- Biblicism: A Trojan Horse Full Of Rationalism
- The Difference Between Sola Scriptura And Biblicism
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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Trueman speaks of protestants not knowing and appreciating their history and his article has a vile, blasphemous image of Christ…quaint.
The editorial staff control the artwork, not the authors.
Does their decision invalidate his point?
Quite. But this is what you get from an inter-religious organization started by a guy who theologically declined as he went along by leaving confessional Lutheranism for the heretical ELCA to laps across the Tiber. Good article regardless of the second commandment being breached.
One quibble…
“Protestants have become as divided from one another as they are from Rome.”
This seems to play into the lie that Rome is undivided. Rome might be undivided in name, but you’ll find a vast range of beliefs encompass Roman Catholic thought. Views of God’s sovereignty range from Augustinian, Thomists to the Molinists.