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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..
