“Another problem that people have with creeds is the problem of ‘stifling orthodoxy,’ what I call orthdusty . . . At the same time, the truths contained in the great creeds can be compared to theological prerequisites. A student is not going to get on very well in fifth grade if he has to restudy and reexamine everything he learned in first grade . . . the reality is that in the history of the church, great recoveries of the truths articulated about the Incarnation and the Trinity in the creeds, as well as a number of related matters, have been times of explosive learning and growth. Rather than thinking of orthodoxy as a stagnant thing, we have to recover a high view of the romance of orthodoxy — and remember to compare it to the pedestrian dullness of heresy” (“Sola Scriptura, Creeds, and Ecclesiastical Authority” in When Shall These Things Be? pp. 282-283)
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