Quote of the Week #2 – Kevin DeYoung on Martin Lloyd Jones and Evangelicalism

“The evangelical distrusts reason and particularly reason in the form of philosophy. We are not concerned about contradictions between the gospel and the philosophies of our day. Reason and scholarship must be kept in their place. They are servants, not masters. Reason can teach us how to believe, but not what we believe. We must not be afraid of scholarship, but we are not desperate for the approval of the academy. Remember, most of the lasting damage to the church in the past two centuries has come through the seminaries. [emphasis added]”
- Kevin DeYoung, paraphrasing Martin Lloyd Jones