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The text that turned me Presbyterian. Reader beware of the implications of embracing Witsius's irresistibly-argued covenant model of redemption. (Which is just the standard Reformed understanding.)
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"In which Witsius explicitly connects, "Love Yahweh your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength" with the first table of the Decalogue and "love your neighbor as yourself," with the second. Both explicitly have man being the image of God as the basis.
I probably got this from him, but there are very few teachings that have arranged the contours of my mental map to a greater degree." — Jul 19, 2026 01:42PM
"In which Witsius explicitly connects, "Love Yahweh your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength" with the first table of the Decalogue and "love your neighbor as yourself," with the second. Both explicitly have man being the image of God as the basis.
I probably got this from him, but there are very few teachings that have arranged the contours of my mental map to a greater degree." — Jul 19, 2026 01:42PM
Context is always of special importance to the interpretation of any scriptural passage. But I object to the use of the context to override the clear particulars of the passage.
Context isn't just of "special importance." Context is king. Context is determinative for both limiting and then selecting from available interpretations. If your favored "clear particulars of the passage" don't agree with the context, then they should be abandoned. This quote has "I'm about to engage in some eisegesis" written all over it.
I can only imagine what my professors would have said if I would have written this line into one of my seminary essays.
“Neither we nor the universe are necessary. We may be important, precious, glorious even, but preciously and gloriously unnecessary.”
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
“This reflects in the sphere of epistemology the wider point made by Cornelius Van Til that “covenant theology is the only form of theology which gives a completely personalistic interpretation to reality.”18”
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
“I thought that in an age when books were few and the intellectual appetite sharp-set, any knowledge might be welcome in any context. But this does not explain why the authors so gladly present knowledge which most of their audience must have possessed. One gets the impression that medieval people, like Professor Tolkien’s Hobbits, enjoyed books which told them what they already knew.”
― The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
― The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
“According to Levin, the fundamental problem is that both rival parties view social institutions “not as molds that ought to shape their behavior and character but as platforms that allow them greater individual exposure and enable them to hone their personal brands.”
― Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What It Means to Read the Bible Theologically
― Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What It Means to Read the Bible Theologically
“The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
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