This is the fourth installment of our examination of Dr. Peter Leithart's call for the end of Protestantism.
Paragraph One; "The Future-End of Protestantism":
Protestants often act as if the Reformation were the end of history, the moment when the Church reached its final condition. For these sorts of Protestants, the future of Protestantism can only be more of the same. This cannot be. God is the living Creator, still at work in his world, and that means that the Protestantism of the future will be something new, and, given the pattern of God's creativity, something better. (Leithart's emphasis)
Here in paragraph one, Dr. Leithart sets up his narrative, prodding readers to stop "acting" foolishly; to put aside their sectarian tribalism and hop on board his train headed into a future guaranteed to be "better" than the past because this is "God's pattern of creativity." With his second and following paragraphs, then, Leithart sets out to build a Biblical foundation for his hermeneutic of better.
Paragraph Two; "The Future-End of Protestantism":
In the beginning, God created the world in six days, and each day improved on the previous one. He spoke light, separated light and darkness, and said it was good. Come the next day, and first-day good was not good enough, so he separated the waters below from the waters above and inserted a firmament between. After he tore the waters and called earth to fruitfulness, he said that was good too. Another evening and morning, and again good was not good enough, so he spent the fourth day hanging lights in the firmament, the fifth calling swarming things to swarm in the sea and birds to hover on the face of the sky, the sixth filling the earth with animals and creating man male and female in his image. Each day was good, but each was followed by darkness and dawn that made good better. When he finished, Yahweh God pronounced it very good and rested in what he had made.
As we said in an earlier post, we can see how someone given to deep insights might want to assume that each of the six days of creation left the created whole better than it was the day before. And yet, for the sake of taking the plenary verbal inspiration of Scripture seriously, it must be pointed out that God's response to the conclusion of each day's work was not "God saw that it was better" but "God saw that it was good."
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