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Theology among the deplorables, October 13th, 2021, preamble, when engaging with a subject

like this one, I usually feel positively invited to limber up my keyboarding digits and

then to give way to some jolly month.

But at the same time, because these are serious issues at stake, it is important to note

that no adjectives were harmed during the composition of this post.

I shall be interacting with some comments made about us in passing by Mark Galley and then

by Rod Dreyer.

The initial impetus for these comments appeared to be a desire to head off a certain narrative

from developing, a narrative which said that if you were interested in heading off the

woke rot that is permeating evangelicalism, then our style of Calvinism was, quote,

the only game in town.

If ever there were an ugly baby that needed to be strangled in the cradle, it is that one.

So I hasten to reassure everyone at the front end that I know my place.

I understand that my assigned station is that of doing theology among the deplorables,

and I have no intention of trying to shinny up the great pole of ecclesiastical ambition,

which is far too greasy anyhow.

There are of course caveats, Luke 152.

But that remains the basic lay of the land as far as we are concerned.

Although I will be taking issue with a handful of things that Galley and Dreyer wrote, I do

want to say, also at the front end, that both of their pieces were filled with trenchant

observations that the judicious really should take to heart.

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