Jerome asked

Thanks for the kind note Jerome. As to Baxter Kruger, I've not
read him. However, I did, in response to your comment, "catch"
him online. Apparently you sense a connection with my emphasis in
our (yours and mine) mutual positive observations regarding C.
Arends' "Grace Of Wrath". My sense is, yes, Kruger is moving in the
"right" direction. His focus on the victorious truth of "perichoresis"
and it's "implications" is critical for the Faith. The only problem
I have with any of the "right" ideas is that they only reflect one
(albeit, the correct) view, given the anarchy of Protestantism. Tragically,
the "right" theology in the wrong "system" becomes just another opinion
to be "voted" on. That, I say, in all seriousness- not meaning to
sound melodramatic- comes close to breaking my heart! Seeing
"evangelicalism" from the perspective of about 50 years of pastoral
experience makes me grieve for the truth of Christ. When the very
"heart" of the Christian Faith becomes the latest fad- something really
"cool"- tells us there's something terribly wrong with the "system". Even
the Jehovah's Witnesses are right about some things, but that doesn't
make them the Christian "church". There's something anomalous about a
new silk patch on a dirty, wornout old coat. Worse, yet, is being oblivious
to the fact that something's terribly wrong with the coat. Then, of course,
there's the story of the Emperor who thought he was clothed- and wasn't. A
pretty handkerchief really wouldn't have added that much.