Kevin DeYoung Proves He Doesn’t Understand that Theology Remains the Queen of the Sciences

“I fear that in the months and years ahead we will see Christians and churches and gospel movements reshuffling their associations based upon a unity not in shared Christological and soteriological truths but in the sameness of our political and cultural instincts.”

Rev. Kevin De Young

This reveals how stupid our clergy is. DeYoung is considered a leader among the Young and Reformed crowd but do you see how jejune this sentiment is? DeYoung complains that people are switching churches because they want to find a sameness in political and cultural instincts while suggesting at the same time that we are surrendering shared Christological and soteriological truths as the ground for our unity.

HOWEVER, as anybody who has any understanding of Theology knows people are, generally speaking, going to have a sameness of political and cultural instincts because they have the same theology. Theology drives everything. EVERYTHING. The reason that people will share the same political and cultural instincts is because they share the same theological instincts.

Now, to be sure, there are always going to be those who share political and cultural instincts who do not share theological instincts including soteriology and Christology. I personally know a chap who is a Open Theist who affirms the ongoing validity of God’s law. Weird combinations exist. But on the whole people with a shared Christology and soteriology are going to have a sameness is their political and cultural instincts. If they don’t then there is a huge contradiction and / or a felicitous inconsistency in their thinking somewhere.

I don’t want to be in a Church with people whom I putatively share Christology and Soteriology sameness who have the opposite political and cultural instincts that I have. Those differences mean we are serving a different God.

DeYoung is not a wise man.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

One thought on “Kevin DeYoung Proves He Doesn’t Understand that Theology Remains the Queen of the Sciences”

  1. Hi Pastor Brett,

    I haven’t been seeing your new sermons on Sermonaudio for a few weeks. I’ve been enjoying your work on there and I hope to see new postings again from you sometime soon!

    Thanks,

    Chris S

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