NathanRinne is a Lutheran writer,
and Lutherans are quite fond of holding out to Reformed
folks that there are things that God just consigns to mystery, and we are best not to inquire about them. [Reformed
theologians go with the things which “by good and necessary consequence may be
deduced from Scripture”, but that is a no-no for Lutherans, as I understand
it].
So here we have a Lutheran, who is more than willing to have
those “rough edges” at the border of the “formal proximate object of faith”, in
a discussion with a Roman Catholic, who blows right beyond “good and necessary”
deductions and resides squarely in the infallible certitude “of a principled,
rather than an <i>ad hoc</i>” way of arriving at the boundaries of
“the formal proximate object of faith”. A “principled” way of determining the
content of “divine revelation” as opposed to what is merely “human opinion”.
I hope these two men continue the discussion.
I think it is better said that the Reformed play the "tension in Scripture" game while as you said the Lutherans appeal to unknowable mysteries.
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