The Fire That Consumes Quotes

“The shapers of Protestant orthodoxy were sensitive to Rome’s false claims of authority”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment

“A major principle of the Reformation was reformata et semper reformanda—reformed and always reforming,” writes Roger Olson. “How is continuing reform of evangelical faith and life possible if being evangelical requires firm adherence to a humanly devised cognitive structure of doctrinal content?”16 Such blind allegiance to a man-made system subverts the purpose of theology by making humankind”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment

“as McGrath explains. It seems to be a general feature of the history of Christian thought that a period of genuine creativity is immediately followed by a petrification and scholasticism”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment

“The most authentic heirs of the Reformation are not those who close their eyes and cling with all their might to a particular creed or confession of faith. They are those who”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment

“What we consider neatness and simplicity is not always a characteristic of Divine working”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment