Always Reforming: Explorations in Systematic Theology

The Reformed churches of the sixteenth century affirmed the need to be semper reformanda--always reforming.

But in the ensuing centuries, some have taken this conviction as a mandate to abandon the departure from received orthodoxy, while others have progressed toward a rigid confessionalism that cements the Reformation itself as a final codification of truth.

Between these extremes is the ongoing need of the church to be always reforming--subjecting its beliefs and practices to the renewed...