Barth and Brunner . . . admit that there are doctrines in the Bible, or at least the Bible contains material out of which doctrines can be developed. Then too these doctrines can in some loose sense be called the Word of God. But in a stricter sense they are not really the Word: In THE DIVINE-HUMAN ENCOUNTER Brunner declares, 'Neither the spoken words of the Apostles nor their conceptual content are the Word itself, but only its frame. . . . God and conceptuality are mutually exclusive.' ....And in case the reader cannot see the damage this statement does to doctrine, Brunner, again in THE DIVINE-HUMAN ENCOUNTER, explicitly maintains that "God can . . . speak his Word to a man even through false doctrine." Gordon H. Clark, CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY, pages 343-44.
Unfortunately the vast majority of "Evangelicals agree with Barth and Brunner rather than with Clark. They say that doctrine is not important and that salvation is a personal encounter with Jesus Christ in "mystical union". That's even the argument of most of the faculty members at Westminster Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, Neo-Orthodoxy seems to have taken over even many in the broader spectrum of the Reformed movement.
Peace,
Charlie
Unfortunately the vast majority of "Evangelicals agree with Barth and Brunner rather than with Clark. They say that doctrine is not important and that salvation is a personal encounter with Jesus Christ in "mystical union". That's even the argument of most of the faculty members at Westminster Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, Neo-Orthodoxy seems to have taken over even many in the broader spectrum of the Reformed movement.
Peace,
Charlie
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