"Ideally, the sermon will reflect at the level of piety and personal need the objective teaching of confession and system, while confession and system will not become insensitive to piety." - Richard Muller

We do a disservice to the #Reformation when we pit doctrinal teaching against dynamic preaching. It is both/and, not either/or.
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Protestant Scholasticism, as a method, was as much about teaching the faith to the next generation as it was about developing a system. The purpose of the 'system' was the 'schola' or school. The scholastic method was developed as a means of teaching and discipling.

How different would it be if we viewed the Protestant Scholastics as concerned primarily with attempting to pass on the true faith?

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“What the Reformation began in less than half a century, orthodox Protestantism defended, clarified and codified over the course of a century and a half. The Reformation is incomplete without its confessional and doctrinal codification.”
- Richard Muller #PRRD

Bold opening statements about the value of Protestant Scholasticism.