were routinely condemned, he was shunned and isolated through most of his ministry, and pastors who embraced his views were forced to be discreet.”[82] One constant theme throughout all his works was “all theological language necessarily falls short of complete objectivity” so that “there can be no absolutely objective or scientific theology.”[83] He thought that many of the theological controversies tearing Christians apart from one another were based on tendencies to take divine revelation too