Daane the Scholastic

Dr. Daane is rather free to characterize theologians and their theology as "scholastic." When he does so, he uses the term in a pejorative, i.e., unfavorable, sense. Scholasticism is a bad word. Thus, for example, he refers in the quotation above to Turretin as "the best-honed theologian of seventeenth-century Reformed scholasticism." Along the same lines, Daane maintains that one may not conclude logically from the truth of election to the truth of reprobation. Dr. Daane is rather free to...