Calvinism's Systematic Theology (and how to fend it off)
(This is not an official part of the "Calvi-cult" series, but I'll include it anyways because it fits.) Here's a very insightful comment from Malaclypsell in the Reddit Reformed post The System in Systematic Theology : " Systematic theology strives to give an orderly, coherent account of Scripture, such that the entire system of belief could potentially be explained, so to speak, in a power point presentation of sufficient length. And all the points in all the slides would be seen to connect and reinforce each other and be textually grounded, as much as possible... the goal is to clear up ambiguity wherever possible. As I reflect on this, and on the Scriptures, I can't help but notice, the procedure of Scripture is very different. Scripture teaches primarily through narrative. It also contains other genres, like prophecy, instruction, poetry, legislation, letters of exhortation, etc., and in places like Romans there is extended theological reflection. Jus...