Obviously (for literate Reformed types who have read John Frame) it is ancient news to criticize Charles Hodge’s “scientific induction” model for how theology ought to be done. Still, it is hard to read this without commenting even when aware one is not saying anything new.

According to Hodge, the Bible presents us with facts and the theologian must put these facts in a proper relation to one another. But the Bible is not phenomena like recording the times of sunrise and sunset throughout the year. The Bible is teaching. God is just as capable of presenting causal and other sorts of relations in a book as Charles Hodge is. So why does God need Hodge to write his own book?

I think there is good reason for Hodge to write, but his model of induction and ordering facts is not a rationale that comports with the Christian God.