Dr. Bouma’s New Platform (2)

Dr. Bouma insists that "the Doctrinal Standards of this or that denomination shall not enter into the construction of the platform upon which the Christian school stands." Whereas it is exactly the Doctrinal Standards of any one ecclesiastical group which are expressive of the doctrinal distinctiveness of that group, it follows that the proposed platform of Dr. Bouma will necessarily turn out to be a vague thing. It cannot be otherwise but that such a platform will lack distinctiveness. And...