The problem with systematic theology is not, therefore, with the system itself. The problem, rather, is the system’s function, how it does or does not move. All living systems, we know, naturally tend towards entropy. Their desire is to be undone and poured out. Any energy we input to maintain order in one place always leads to disorder elsewhere. The frequent shift of energy’s input and flow, the slight imbalance of order and chaos, is what keeps the living system living. When we forget that a theological system is living too, it gets stuck. An overly tight maintenance of orthodoxy at one
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