tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3771009444113723863.post2848049794403861127..comments2024-03-21T10:33:24.876-07:00Comments on Articuli Fidei: The Church, development and apostasy—A Reformed View.David Waltzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17966083488813749052noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3771009444113723863.post-91116016146885472292008-06-13T10:35:00.000-07:002008-06-13T10:35:00.000-07:00Hi Chris,You wrote:>>I suspect that Cunningham, as...Hi Chris,<BR/><BR/>You wrote:<BR/><BR/>>>I suspect that Cunningham, as a 19th-century theologian writing in the polemical eschatological tradition of Luther and Calvin, was much more apt to see in the Middle Ages a "grand apostasy" than most Reformed theologians today would be.>><BR/><BR/>Me: Agreed; but I would quickly add that most theologians of today who claim to be “Reformed” should probably be labeled “Diet-Coke Reformed”/psuedo-Reformed [GRIN].<BR/><BR/>Grace and peace,<BR/><BR/>DavidDavid Waltzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966083488813749052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3771009444113723863.post-3171269427135857622008-06-12T10:11:00.000-07:002008-06-12T10:11:00.000-07:00Hi David,I suspect that Cunningham, as a 19th-cent...Hi David,<BR/><BR/>I suspect that Cunningham, as a 19th-century theologian writing in the polemical eschatological tradition of Luther and Calvin, was much more apt to see in the Middle Ages a "grand apostasy" than most Reformed theologians today would be. That is to say, his view of the medieval church may be bleak, but I do not think it is inseparable from his view of development. His view of development requires simply this: that the institutional Roman church not be coterminous with the church of Christ, and that the canon of scripture be provable by other means than appeal to the church's authority..Christopher Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09539170598198122642noreply@blogger.com