Comments on: The Dogmatic Impulse within Scripture https://reformedforum.org/dogmatic-impulse-within-scripture/ Reformed Theological Resources Sat, 24 Jun 2017 19:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Ruben https://reformedforum.org/dogmatic-impulse-within-scripture/#comment-3528916 Sat, 24 Jun 2017 19:14:01 +0000 http://reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=5680#comment-3528916 In reply to Daniel Ragusa.

Interesting point, Dan. I do think the whole process of “inner-biblical exegesis” (to cite Fishbane) is a major thread drawing us to correlate and summarize, and that is at least the first step in systematizing. When you add also the way John gives a propositional conclusion from historical events (1 John 1:5), there’s certainly warrant for deriving a systematic theology that is genuinely “ex Scriptura repetita” by a Biblically-motivated transformation of the Scriptural materials.

]]> By: Daniel Ragusa https://reformedforum.org/dogmatic-impulse-within-scripture/#comment-3528895 Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:24:58 +0000 http://reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=5680#comment-3528895 Great article, Ruben! I came across this comment by John Murray regarding Romans 3:10-18, which got me thinking about what you wrote. Murray said, “The quotation in verses 10-18 is not derived from any one place in the Old Testament. The apostle places together various passages which when thus combined provide a unified summary of the witness of the Old Testament to the pervasive sinfulness of mankind” (The Epistle to the Romans, 102). I think even here you see Paul systematizing Old Testament revelation by unifying various parts around a particular doctrine. He’ll go on to draw conclusions not from a single, isolated passage, but from the combined witness of special revelation. In a way, he starts with the biblical-theological “line” to make a systematic-theological “circle.”

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