While I affirm sola scriptura and privilege the authority of biblical revelation in our worship and music reflection, these convictions do not preclude us from gaining favorable insights from the history of the church, philosophy, a community of believers, the social sciences, and other sources where God’s truth about the world and the people who live in it may be discerned.
This statement is slightly adapted from one made by a leading evangelical leader about another issue. Can you guess who said it and in what context? No Googling!
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John MacArthur re: beverage alcohol.
Nope, but good guess. That was a good article yesterday.
To say, “We need church history, philosophy, etc.” is not at all the same as to say that we are not precluded “from gaining favorable insights from the history of the church, philosophy,” etc.
That said, this is a statement that any number of people could have made on any number of topics: Mohler on sexual ethics, MacDonald on why congregationalism is from the devil, Wells on contextualization, Keller on social justice, Waltke on the non-historicity of Adam and Eve, Driscoll on why churches need multiple sites, and almost (but not quite) Dever on why they don’t.
Your point is valid.
I almost guessed Dever on polity.
Nope, nope, and nope, but getting close.
FYI, it was Ed Stetzer talking about missiology.