Come, Let Us Reason Together, Part 3
The Crisis of Reformed Theology
Pastor John continues his analysis of the “heretical tendencies” of Evangelicals as they seek to be faithful to the Lord’s command to preach the Gospel to the whole world.
God is righteous. God is love. Is God a “duality”? Reformed theologians would say “yes,” according to Robert Law, a pastor/scholar contemporary of James Denney. Reformed theology involves the “prioritizing of God’s righteousness and the submission of his love to act only when it is consistent with [his] righteousness. . . He must be righteous…he may be loving.” (Italics mine.) Pastor John discusses why this is a problem.
References are from Robert Law’s book The Tests of Life: A Study of the First Epistle of St. John, Being the Kerr Lectures for 1909 (Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 1909).