PART FIVE of Chapter 1 - The Cultural Case against Creeds and Confessions by Dr. Carl Trueman
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PART FIVE of Chapter 1 - The Cultural Case against Creeds and Confessions by Dr. Carl Trueman with Pastor William Shifflett
Solemn vows taken before God and the church.
The Fear of Exclusion.
The fear of exclusion, of drawing boundaries such that some people belong and other people do not. In the silly extremes of political correctness, it almost seems that anything at which I choose to take offense is to be deemed oppressive.
A confession is a positive statement of belief, it inevitably excludes those who disagree with its content. Would a Unitarian let a Trinitarian preach at their service?
There is a fear of Christianity that is committed to truth that apply beyond the community of faith or which exclude certain people from that community is profoundly at odds with the cultural current.
Yet prisons are full. Legislation is pass against discrimination.
Coalition movements.
Conclusion: Creeds, Confessions, and Distasteful Christianity.
The pastor who thinks he is being biblical by declaring he has no creed but the Bible may actually, upon reflection, find that his position is more shaped by the modern world that he at first realized. Rather than instinctively taking his cue for the historic practices of the church, he may in fact really be shaped by the wider world.
Creeds strike hard at the cherished notion of human autonomy and of the notion that I am exceptional, that the normal rules do not apply to me in the way they do to others.
We are naive as Christians if we think that our thinking is not shaped by the cultural currents that surround us.
A challenge.
Next time: Chapter 2 - The Foundations of Creedalism.
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