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It is now clear to me that a few major accent points in my argument might better have been the focus of my work; but what I wanted to say is all there in any case. These major accent points include: 1. A primary appeal to testimony, which
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“This biblical warrant for “capital punishment” is also the grounds for its abolition in Christ. It naturally follows for Yoder that those whose faith centers on the conviction that Christ shed his own blood in the place of all capital offenders (“for the wages of sin is death,” Rom 6:23) must actively oppose the practice of capital punishment. In Yoder’s words, “Life is God’s peculiar possession, which man may not profane with impunity. Thus, the function of capital punishment in Genesis 9 is not the defense of society but the expiation of an offense against the image of God. If this be the case—and both exegetical and anthropological studies confirm strongly that it is—then the central events of the New Testament, the cross and the resurrection, are overwhelmingly relevant to this issue. The sacrifice of Christ is the end of all expiatory killing.”20”
― The Politics of Yahweh: John Howard Yoder, the Old Testament, and the People of God
― The Politics of Yahweh: John Howard Yoder, the Old Testament, and the People of God
“Even T. S. Eliot, one of the best-known and successful poets of the twentieth century, was a banker. Poetry simply did not pay the bills.”
― Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality
― Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality
“Complete demythologization is not possible when speaking about the divine.”
― Systematic Theology, Vol 2
― Systematic Theology, Vol 2
“Biblical literalism did a distinct disservice to Christianity in its identification of the Christian emphasis on the symbol of the Fall with the literalistic interpretation of the Genesis story. Theology need not take literalism seriously, but we must realize how its impact has hampered the apologetic task of the Christian church. Theology must clearly and unambiguously represent “the Fall” as a symbol for the human situation universally, not as the story of an event that happened “once upon a time.”
― Systematic Theology, Vol 2
― Systematic Theology, Vol 2
“Israel’s participation in the divine covenant in Torah was a daily reality—every aspect of the life of the community was being lived out in accordance with what God had said. It was not primarily a matter of belief but one of praxis. To do the works of the law was the faithful response to a covenant that Israel understood actually to exist. Living “in Torah” was not a likening to something, it was the substance of something—an “enacted reality”: So long as theologians conceive their task as primarily elucidating biblical “ideas,” they will continue to miss the fundamental significance of covenant in the biblical tradition. Covenant is not an “idea” to be embraced in the mind, and therefore religious community cannot be defined with respect to “orthodox” appraisals of that idea. Covenant is an “enacted reality” that is either manifested in the concrete choices individuals make, or not.918”
― Atonement and the New Perspective: The God of Israel, Covenant, and the Cross
― Atonement and the New Perspective: The God of Israel, Covenant, and the Cross
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