The Wages of Spin

Posted on August 11, 2010 
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“…I think that the attitude of the reformers to tradition was very different to that which we have today.

Today we have, I would say, culturally a suspicious attitude to tradition. … But the reformers’ attitude towards theological traditions was different. I think if you look at how Calvin and Luther connected to the tradition of the church—which to an extent as young men they inherited, and then they reformed, or critiqued and interacted with it—they have what I say to the students is a “hermeneutic of trust.”  Today we have a “hermeneutic of suspicion,” we are naturally suspicious, if you like, of traditional things, of anything that comes from the past…”

– Carl Trueman was recently interviewed on US radio about his book The Wages of Spin – and Westminster  Seminary has the transcript.