when taking a closer look at history...

Steven Wedgeworth researches the Synod of Dort (particularly the involvement of the British delegates) and discovers a broader and more moderate Reformed theology driving the work there than we tend to read into it from the twenty-first century. His work reminds me of Chad Van Dixhoorn's work on the Westminster Assembly illuminating the consensus nature of the document. Here is an example involving the issue of the imputation of the active obedience of Christ. Apparently our standards and tradition account for and protect certain views as being acceptable and Biblical yet today we interpret those same standards and traditions in ways that exclude the very positions they were worded to protect. Very interesting.