Who of God is made unto us wisdom.
1 Corinthians 1:30
"1) Man's intellect seeks after rest,
2) and by nature seeks it apart from
the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Men of education are apt,
to
look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little
reverent and loving.
They are snared in the old net
in which the
Grecians were taken,
and have a hankering
to mix philosophy with
revelation.
This led the
early Christian churches into Gnosticism,
and bewitched them with all
sorts of heresies.
This is the root of Neology,
and the other fine
things which in days gone by were so fashionable in Germany, and are now
so ensnaring to certain classes of divines.
Whoever you are, good
reader, and whatever your education may be, if you be the Lord's, be
assured you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity.
All that reason, when best guided, can find
out is but the A B C of truth, and even that lacks certainty, while in
Christ Jesus there is treasured up all the fullness of wisdom and
knowledge. All attempts on the part of Christians to be content with
systems such as Unitarian and Broad-church thinkers would approve of,
must fail; true heirs of heaven must come back to the grandly simple
reality which makes the ploughboy's eye flash with joy,..."
Charles Spurgeon
* "Neology is the name given to the rationalist theology of Germany or the rationalisation of the Christian religion. It was preceded by slightly less radical Wolffism.
In epistemology, rationalism is the view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" wikipedia