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Continue reading »]]> What’s with the following phrases?

“X isn’t Christocentric enough”
“X isn’t Trinitarian enough”
“X is too Aristotelian“
“X is too systematic”
“X is too Scholastic”
“X is too intellectual”
These examples are different from one another, but I’ve been thinking a bit about this sort of rhetoric lately.
What are the following turns of phrase are getting at?  What’re they trying to preserve? What sort of assumptions lie behind them?
“You can’t see the atonement in abstraction from the trinity”
“You can’t see Holy Scripture in abstraction from God’s redemptive acts”
“You can’t see revelation in abstraction from history”
“You can’t see election in abstraction from redemptive history”
I’m going to have a crack at throwing some amateur thoughts down on the topic of theological method soon, so I’d love to hear your thoughts on this sort of thing!
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