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Irenaeus, Origen, and the great cloud of premodern biblical interpreters assumed that puzzling out the mosaic of Scripture must be a communal project. The Bible is vast, heterogeneous, full of confusing passages and obscure words, and
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“When Matthew has the angel tell Joseph that the child to be born will be “Emmanuel,” “God with us,” and then finishes his gospel with Jesus himself telling his followers that he will be “with them always,” alert readers know that the entire story ought to be read with this in mind.”
― The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
― The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
“Those who act in the dark become even more unsure and uncertain of themselves. But the same people, when honor, praise, or approval is expressed by external signs, clearly become confident in their actions, for their spirit and judgment are strengthened by these signs.”
― Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
― Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
“Such is our human tendency, that whenever we admire somebody for their achievements in great things, it is hard to persuade us that they err in anything.”
― Radicalism: When Reform Becomes Revolution: The Preface to Hooker's Laws: A Modernization
― Radicalism: When Reform Becomes Revolution: The Preface to Hooker's Laws: A Modernization
“The doctrine of the divine authority of Holy Scripture constitutes an important component in the words of God that Jesus preached, and if he was mistaken on this point he was wrong at a point that is most closely tied in with the religious life and he can no longer be recognized as our highest prophet. We cannot take Jesus seriously as a teacher and reject his own teaching concerning Holy Scripture.”
― Reformed Dogmatics
― Reformed Dogmatics
“But the overwhelming historical impression from the gospels as a whole is of a human being doing what Israel’s God had said he would do, of a human being embodying, incarnating what Israel’s God had said he would be across page after page in Israel’s scriptures. The new Passover happened because the pillar of cloud and fire—though now in a strange and haunting form, the likeness of a battered and crushed human being—had come back to deliver the people. The covenant was renewed because of the blood that symbolized the utter commitment of God to his people, the lifeblood that spoke of divine protection, of God’s self-giving love.”
― The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
― The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
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