concerns, but it flourished at the expense of tending to thriving in this life. In addition, the modern construal of truth, which was more interested in intellectual coherence than in goodness, gave rise to Protestant Scholasticism in order to systematize Protestant teaching and establish it as an academic discipline.2 Attention turned from the formative effects of doctrines on those who professed them to how well or how poorly doctrines perform intellectually. Ultimately, this may also be to a pastoral