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Originally Posted by CaseyBessette  The scholastic method -- what's good about it, what's bad about it? Why isn't it used today? Too tedious? Thoughts?  |
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You are asking about Protestant Scholasticism correct?
What's good? It forced you to think. And it forced you to study the classics of both secular and church history. You knew your roots culturally and religiously. It well equipped you to deal with new heresies and doctrinal challenges because you had a firm foundation in Scripture and it's application through the centuries.
What's bad? The tendency to dead orthodoxy and academic isolation. Theology without practice just puffs people up and makes theology irrelevant to the average Joe. That's why the best theologians in history were pastors first.
Why isn't it used today? We are not educated the same way anymore. Classical education is rare among pastors. Historical theology is also rare. And we live in a culture that values sensation rather than thinking, the instantaneous rather the hard wrought.
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but I don't think I'm too far off.