Qoheleth
Puritan Board Freshman
In Reformed Dogmatics, Bavinck contends for the use of the word principium for Scripture rather than the use of fons, as the latter mistakenly pictures Scripture as a well from which to draw doctrine mechanically, which the editor claims to be Charles Hodge’s view (this is the abridged one-volume version.) Principium, on the other hand, “suggests an organic connection.” He then claims that Scripture contains material for dogma, but formally, there is no dogma in it. What does he mean by this? What’s wrong with Hodge’s method? I’m struggling to see the point in his distinction between the two.