Noel Heikkenen highlights a great Yo-Yo Ma quote:
“Any tradition that doesn’t evolve becomes smaller.”
Reminded me of a favorite John Murray quote (that I’ve mentioned here before):
“However epochal have been the advances made at certain periods and however great the contributions of particular men we may not suppose that theological construction ever reaches definitive finality. There is the danger of a stagnant traditionalism and we must be alert to this danger, on the one hand, as to that of discarding our historical moorings, on the other.
When any generation is content to rely upon its theological heritage and refuses to explore for itself the riches of divine revelation, then declension is already under way and heterodoxy will be the lot of the succeeding generation…. A theology that does not build on the past ignores our debt to history and naively overlooks the fact that the present is conditioned by history. A theology that relies on the past evades the demands of the present (emphasis mine).”
– cited in John Frame‘s article In Defense of Something Close to Biblicism: Reflections on Sola Scriptura and History in Theological Method.
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