Finished Darwell Stone’s Outlines of Christian Dogma today — the assigned section anyway, pages 107–218, covering the Church and the Sacraments.
None of it was new territory. Stone writes as a classical Anglican Catholic, holding Protestant soteriology and Catholic order together without apology, and the ground he covers is ground I’ve been walking for a while. What Stone does well is make clean distinctions. Concepts I already held in a somewhat loose grip came out of the reading a bit sharper.
That’s an underrated thing in theological reading. Not every book has to change your mind. Some books just clarify what you already believe and show you why it holds together.
Tomorrow: back to the video lectures. Bishop Grote taught the Church and Sacraments course before his death, so there’s something fitting about sitting with his teaching now.
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