Mark Stone

“As One and Unique, and yet as one who is to be understood only in the context of mankind's entire history and in the context of the whole created cosmos, Jesus is the Word, the Image, the Expression and the Exegesis of God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Seeing the Form

“It is of great importance for a student of Old Testament theology to notice that in every period of the discipline, the questions, methods, and possibilities in which study is cast arise from the sociointellectual climate in which the work must be done.

(p. 11)”
― Walter Brueggemann

“I, like many, if not most, specialists working on pentateuchal formation now, do not recognize an 'Elohist' counterpart to the older 'Yahwist.'

Whatever pre-Priestly proto-Pentateuch I would consider would be one that contains texts once assigned to J and E. Furthermore, I am inclined to date any non-P proto-Pentateuch no earlier than the late preexilic or (more likely) exilic period.

My pre-Priestly 'proto-Pentateuch' is close to the older J neither in contents or context. The only way I am a proponent of a 'Yahwist' is if one reduces the definition of such a document as Jan Christian Gertz does to those who posit a 'running strand of pre-Priestly material in the Tetratech.'

That definition, however, makes the term 'Yahwist' so different from the older use of the term as to make it functionally nonusable.

In fact, no one on this panel, so far as I know, advocates a Yahwist recognizably like the J of studies up through the 1970s.

(David Carr essay, p. 160)”
― Thomas B. Dozeman, Farewell to the Yahwist?: The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation

“To borrow the language of Augustine, God is not only superior summo meo -- beyond my utmost heights -- but also interior intimo meo -- more inward to me than my inmost depths.”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss