Episode #44
Tom Hicks: Allegorist (?) - Confessional Dissonance Displayed
When confessional Protestants begin treating the medieval fourfold sense as a recoverable resource—whether by reframing it as four moods, four sensitivities, or four applications—the need for a clear, sustained defense of the single sense becomes urgent. The confessions already settled the question. Soft retrieval does not revise that settlement; it quietly sets it aside. If pastor and professor Hicks is full/strict (no doctrinal exceptions — a common Reformed Baptist standard), he cannot hold the quadriga without contradiction. A strict signer doesn’t get to keep a doctrine his confession denies, and “not manifold, but one” denies manifold sense in plain words. If Hicks is system/good-faith, the honest move is to take an exception to 1.9. But the moment he does, he has conceded the correct 1.9 reading — because you only take an exception to a rule that stands against you. Registering the exception admits the plain words exclude the fourfold sense. Is there a third option? https://x.com/upuritano/status/2090301888340140103?s=46&t=LQtFM-3m0SCDSxEY3sbwIw
