There is no reason to absolutize any period of theological history, per se. In other words, every season of theological development, within the Church’s history, is open for engagement. The Lord Himself said He would build His Church, and through Paul continued to say that He would, in particular, provide pastors and teachers, so on and so forth. This ought to teach us that Christ has been present, all along, in His Church. He hasn’t abandoned it or left it as orphans, but has provided His Holy Spirit to presence Himself and sacra doctrina among those who fellowship with Him in the triune life He shares with the Father and Holy Spirit. So, it is possible, and really necessary, to approach the development of theological dogma within the open frame that is provided by the esse of the Church itself. If we do this, as we ought, we will not elevate one period of ecclesial doctrinal development as sacrosanct over others, per se. This is not to say that there aren’t some fundamental inflection points in the Church’s development of essential doctrine, particularly when we think in terms of the catholic developments surrounding Nicaea, Constantinople and Chalcedon, that have helped to regulate the grammar the Church uses in order to speak God in intelligible and articulate ways. But even so, these inflection points in the Church’s history, should not be absolutized in a way that they remain closed off as if final words on the way the Church understands and relates to Christ. They shouldn’t be abandoned, but because of the eschatological nature of the development of Christian theological discourse, things always ought to remain open; finding their anchor point in the anchor of the Church’s soul as the High Priest is seated at the Right Hand of the Father always living to make intercession for those who will inherit eternal life. We only are able, because we inhabit these bodies of death still, to see through a glass dimly, even as our proximate knowledge of God in Christ gives way to fuller and deeper understandings of Him, as we are transformed from glory to glory; from Christ’s full glory for us. We keep pressing into the reality of our life in Christ, growing in His grace and knowledge for us.