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“Since at least the seventeenth century, evangelical theology has been as deductive as the Catholic Church in the Higih Middle Ages…It often reasoned from the precise texts of Scripture as if they were premises of Aristotelian syllogisms. Classical Protestantism was far more Catholic and hence medieval than it admitted. The focus on proof-texting betrayed those learnings.
“But, Aristotelianism was never compatible with the biblical faith perspective, as Luther discerned, and neither was deductive reasoning” (The Next Reformation, pp 93-94).
Faith isn’t logical. It’s not rational. Luther referred to reason and logic as “that bitch goddess”…and he’s right. By trying to rationalize faith, we are focusing on reason and logic instead of Christ and faith. Kierkegaard considered it a “leap of faith”.  Christianity cannot follow in Aristotle’s footsteps.
Insisting to prove Christianity true by using lines of reasoning and syllogism will not bring anybody nearer to Christ. Has anyone been won over by some air-tight argument? No. It is an appeal to something wholly other within that moves people to Christ.