Unicorns and rhinoceri
Alastair discusses the importance of recognising the limitations of our own categories. Otherwise, we are too likely to fail to engage properly with people whose positions differ from our own, whether because they’re separated from us by time (like the apostle Paul) or culture.
Unicorns only exist in the imagination, as do many of the theological positions that Reformed Christians categorize in terms of (Roman Catholicism, Arminianism, Judaism, etc.).
This is one of the reasons why questioning the helpfulness of the categories of our confessional documents is important. Reformed people have been seeing unicorns in the writings of the apostle Paul, for example, for far too long. Much of what they are seeing is there (just as unicorns share certain prominent features in common with rhinoceri), but we really need to question whether our traditional confessional categories are really sufficient.
pax et bonum
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