I like this:

[aReformedPatriot]

"To be Reformed is to be truly catholic, biblical, evangelical, and orthodox."

Preface to The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship by Robert Letham (pp. ix).

Certainly sig worthy.

 

[Jon_]

"To be reformed is to be truly catholic, biblical, evangelical, and orthodox."

Preface to The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship by Robert Letham (pp. ix).

Certainly sig worthy.

Yes, that's very true and wonderfully pious sounding, but every denomination and physical church would proclaim this to themselves. It doesn't quite fully encompass what it means to be Reformed (capital "R"). Not to denigrate the statement, it is good, but just a little too vague for my taste.

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon

 

[StAnselm]

Oh, it's certainly not meant to be an explanation of what it is to be Reformed.

But here's a similar sort of quote, by G. S. M. Walker:

There are two types of catholicity, one Roman and one Reformed. They stand in fundamental oppostion because of a certain fundamental likeness, for Geneva offered to Rome an alternative which was ultimate and in itself complete. A partial synthesis was indeed achieved by Canterbury, but at the price of creating parties which finally sundered the religious unity of England.

 

[aReformedPatriot]

Yes, that's very true and wonderfully pious sounding, but every denomination and physical church would proclaim this to themselves. It doesn't quite fully encompass what it means to be Reformed (capital "R"). Not to denigrate the statement, it is good, but just a little too vague for my taste.

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon

ooops, I misquoted. He actually capitalizes "Reformed."

 

[Rolf Ernst]

"To be Reformed is to be truly catholic, biblical, evangelical, and orthodox."

Preface to The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship by Robert Letham (pp. ix).

Certainly sig worthy.

Definitely! Well said, ENVOY!