----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 8:53
PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] The place of
creeds in relation to truth
toward
peace..theology is the personalization, also, the socialization, of 'God's
message' (in this case meaning 'the message' that the Bereans
'receivd' from the Ap Paul acc to the writg in Acts)..that
msg had to be evaluatd in Berea, too..that's bec there is no biblical
theology devoid of either personalization/s or socialization/s..and, these
(p&s's) are assembled relative to certain assumd values and
presuppositions..all theology is not only experientially organizd, it is
relatively experimental even in the hardest bitten 'orthodoxy'..thus the
creeds..thus, too, of necessity, wisely, all theology is
negotiable..however, as the creedalists realiz/d, all such experiments
and negotiations may (or may not) be transacted within
biblical perameters..these biblical perameters also are
negotiable or non-negotiable; and, this observation, rootd
in several yrs of TT experience, captures our situation
precisely..TT rubber meets road (also) with typical (e.g. Nicene)
friction..perhaps, in sum, like at Nicea, the 'friction' (here) is the
degree to which all participants are/are not 'negotiating'
such perameters existentially, virtually, per
post..
example: jt's
contra-ref to 'Servaitus' includes the critique that Calvin operated acc
to 'Mosaic code'/theology in Geneva (which may not be true given the nature of
the reference so far..e.g., is it from 'Philip Schaff'? so what?)..regardless,
if this ref proves to be valid, then think about the lengths to
which non-negotiating tendencies, as above, will travel..inexhorably into
contradiction (validatg, at least in part, contr G, Bill's public
observations):
while jt
employs this source to discredit creedal theology (keep this word in the
contxt, above, pls), she actually (not merely
simultaneously) implicates numerous ppl, prob inc herself and many
on TT who've advocatd the position that the 'Mosaic code' is in force
existentially (now) upon JCs followers as potential
'Calvinists'..
as you may
suspect, correctly IMO, Calvin himself continues to have a
tremendous influence on our lives, but for stranger reasons than certain ppl,
partic 'non-negotiable' types, typified abv have yet to
realize..
think abt the
implications of it 'assuming' Servaitus was burned at the stake due to the
role/force of 'Mosaic code' in Calvinistic Geneva..
a
reasonable theological discussion it 'at stake',
here, too:)
G
Theology that is held on a personal
basis..
