Recent years have seen many evangelical thinkers become more alert to the work that individual doctrines do in our broader understanding of the Christian faith and life. The neglected, occasionally despised, and much misunderstood doctrine of divine impassibility, for example, has been shown to have deep relevance to questions of pastoral care, as Derek Rishmawy and Wesley Hill have both demonstrated.
Doctrines do not hang in the ether as abstractions that we simply affirm or negate, like questions on a school exam on which we will be graded. Rather, they explain, support, and anchor the practices of God’s people as we sojourn in the world.
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