vol. 38, Issue #2

Online Journal Article: THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH - VERNON C. GROUNDS* JETS 38/2 (June 1995) 219–229

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THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH -
VERNON C. GROUNDS*
JETS 38/2 (June 1995) 219–229

Excerpt:
While evangelicalism is a much disputed term, all of us who are willing
(even eager) to be known as evangelicals adhere to the basic tenets of Biblical
faith as they are spelled out in the great creedal confessions. That commitment
entails a concern about the dilution of those essentials in the aberrant
teachings of individuals and groups as they emerge on the cultural scene
seeking to win adherents to their beliefs. We therefore endorse and support
efforts to point out where those beliefs are misbeliefs that deviate from the
norm of revelational truth. Polemical defense of traditional orthodoxy may
not be our personal responsibility, but we are grateful for the work of scholars
who are called to that ministry. We realize that any such ministry, no matter
how graciously it is carried on, precipitates controversy.Indeed it is
inescapably controversial because it is not simply
a hairsplitting discussion about academic issues.
It is spiritual warfare.... --from page 219