Doctrinal tensions
In the course of a helpful summary and discussion of John Owen’s treatise on The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (a celebrated work defending the doctrine of particular atonement), Andrew David Naselli offers, in tabular form, a reminder of the tensions that surround several significant doctrines:-
In a footnote, Naselli adds: inspiration, prayer, evangelism, and progressive sanctification.
I’m a fan of systematic theology (which is, after all, essentially an attempt to determine what Scripture as whole teaches on a given topic). But I’m also convinced that we shouldn’t attempt to be more systematic than the Bible, and that some tensions remain that are unresolved (and perhaps unresolvable) to our finite minds.