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.