“It would have been much more desirable if Protestantism could have found some room for celibacy.”
Lacking context or attribution, one might think that the above quote comes from a Roman Catholic critique of Protestant theology. Yet to most folks' surprise, this particular statement comes not from one of Rome’s theologians or some atheist critic of Protestantism, but from one of the Reformed tradition’s darling systematists: the esteemed Dutch reformed theologian, Herman Bavinck.
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