““My concern with this is not about who owns the trademark. If a label is used chiefly to lionize “us” and demonize “them,” we’d be better off without it. Rather, my concern is that the richness and breadth of Reformed faith and practice are being reduced to a few doctrines. In the process, even those doctrines lose much of their supporting rationale. In fact, their meaning changes at crucial points. For example, I believe that the doctrine of election is inextricably bound up with covenant theology and with the covenantal life that is shaped in the New Testament by the means of grace. As I have argued, even “eternal security” is different from the doctrine of perseverance.””
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