Marlon

“To construct a metaphor, Protestant theology is the castle in which we safely live: patristic and medieval theology is a dark forest surrounding the castle into which we may occasionally venture.”
― Gavin Ortlund, Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals: Why We Need Our Past to Have a Future

“Christianity is a system of doctrines supernaturally revealed and now recorded in the Bible. Of that system there can be no development. No new doctrines can be added to those contained in the word of God. No doctrine can ever be unfolded or expanded beyond what is there revealed. The whole revelation is there, and is there as distinctly, as fully, and as clearly as it can ever be made, without a new supernatural revelation. Every question, therefore, as to what is, or what is not Christian doctrine, is simply a question as to what the Bible teaches.”
― Gavin Ortlund, Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals: Why We Need Our Past to Have a Future

“ I would like to focus on the use of the word silly for a particular people’s point of views. Everybody has what is called a plausibility structure; we all have sets of background beliefs through which we process and assess evidence. When you call something silly, you are merely saying, ‘Relative to my plausibility structure that isn’t within that structure.’ That’s merely a comment on your own psychology, there’s nothing more to it so I don’t find that very helpful,” (Randal Rauser, Unbelieveable Feb. 1, 2014).”
― Randal Rauser

“Jeremy Begbie notes that music conveys meaning in a nonrepresentational manner, unlike our other forms of communication.121 Thus, music’s power of communication is unique: “Music is the least imitative of the arts, the least reducible to other things (certainly the least translatable into verbal discourse), the least dependent on preexisting things outside itself. Music is the closest we will get in this life to creating out of nothing.”
― Gavin Ortlund, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism