Mouw on Nostr: 🔥🔥🔥quote: "A theologian who undertakes to discuss ________ is, while doing ...
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"A theologian who undertakes to discuss ________ is, while doing so, a member of a certain church. This church has a confession. As a member of said church this theologian is bound to interpret and defend that confession. If he feels this to be cramping his scientific instincts he should not be a confessional theologian at all. No confessional theologian worthy of the name has made a *sacrificium intellectualis* when he swore his allegiance to a confession. He has sworn such allegiance because he thinks that in such allegiance he not only finds true freedom for the exercise of his intellectual instincts but because in the particular confession to which he has sworn allegiance, he thinks he has found the greatest liberty that can be found anywhere."
-Cornelius Van Til
"A theologian who undertakes to discuss ________ is, while doing so, a member of a certain church. This church has a confession. As a member of said church this theologian is bound to interpret and defend that confession. If he feels this to be cramping his scientific instincts he should not be a confessional theologian at all. No confessional theologian worthy of the name has made a *sacrificium intellectualis* when he swore his allegiance to a confession. He has sworn such allegiance because he thinks that in such allegiance he not only finds true freedom for the exercise of his intellectual instincts but because in the particular confession to which he has sworn allegiance, he thinks he has found the greatest liberty that can be found anywhere."
-Cornelius Van Til