{"id":823,"date":"2008-11-02T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=823"},"modified":"2008-11-02T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T12:00:58","slug":"reformed-and-post-reformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/11\/02\/reformed-and-post-reformed\/","title":{"rendered":"Reformed and Post-Reformed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since being officially described as &#8220;Reformed&#8221; (with the adverb &#8220;dangerously&#8221; unofficially attached) a year ago, I&#8217;ve tried to figure out what that means.<\/p>\n<p>So when I was researching the term a year ago, I stumbled across the corrective &#8220;post-reformed.&#8221; If Reformed means to give the Sovereign the final benefit of the doubt, &#8220;Post-Reformed&#8221; further foregrounds that humility. Here&#8217;s <a title=\"Post-Reformed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevekmccoy.com\/reformissionary\/2006\/04\/postreformed.html\" target=\"_blank\">one list of post-Reformed tenets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Being PostReformed means laying aside a dogmatic application of a particular reading of the Reformed Confessions<\/strong> that keeps one from appreciating and fellowshipping with brethren from other traditions outside of Reformedom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Being PostReformed enables one to see the Bible as God\u2019s grand story<\/strong> of the ages and not to view it as a repository of propositions and factoids. It\u2019s not a Tommy-gun that we load up with pet proof texts\u2026to blast other Christians with. It sometimes gets mysterious and messy but the PostReformed man is comfortable with that and doesn\u2019t feel the necessity to correct God via better formulations and propositions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Being PostReformed allows one to ask, \u201cwho can I work with\u201d rather than \u201cwho can I not work with\u201d<\/strong> in ministry opportunities outside of one\u2019s immediate church, denomination, or tradition. This puts things in positive rather than negative terms and frees one to find allies instead of drawing an ever more exclusive circle of \u201corthodoxy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Being PostReformed means that<\/strong> when one arrives at a roadblock in one\u2019s tradition, a roadblock created by traditions that attempt to interpret tradition,     <strong>one is free jump into another road altogether<\/strong>. The PostReformed are not afraid to borrow from another tradition\u2019s formulation of an issue, or to leave a particular point to ambiguity. He is able to clearly see he is bound by God\u2019s Word and that tradition must serve it. He is a man in full.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Being PostReformed means that you are sometimes not persuaded when the majority of current scholarship in your tradition agrees on something<\/strong>. They may be blind to the fact that they have arrived in a self-referential cul-de-sac. Jumping out of the cul-de-sac to see what another tradition says or to access earlier formulations from your own tradition isn\u2019t something to be afraid of.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Being PostReformed means you regard Arminians, Emerging Churchmen, and Roman Catholics as Christians<\/strong>\u2026and treat them as such. You work vigorously to build unity, without compromising truth, to demonstrate the visible unity of the Body of Christ, wherever you can, to the watching world. The PostReformed man takes the Beatitudes seriously with great longing in his heart: \u201cBlessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Being PostReformed means having enough confidence in your Reformed theological convictions that you can interact substantively with Christians in other traditions without fear<\/strong>. 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