Exegesis is a human conceptual enterprise, and so is biblical theology. All the theological disciplines involve human intellectual participation. But human intellect is finite, and hence there is always room for revision of systematic
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“J.C. Ryle faithfully observed that “A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as his peace.”
― The Cross and Salvation
― The Cross and Salvation
“He wrote, “The spiritual security of believers . . . depends primarily not on their hold on God but on God’s hold of them.”
― The Cross and Salvation
― The Cross and Salvation
“Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances—over nature, over time and distance, over one another.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“For example, more and more schools are incorporating project-based learning and design thinking—a five-stage process for solving complex problems that includes (1) defining a problem; (2) understanding the human needs involved; (3) reframing the problem in human-centric ways; (4) generating a multitude of ideas; and (5) a hands-on approach in prototyping and testing.”
― Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success
― Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success
“Every intellectual technology, to put it another way, embodies an intellectual ethic, a set of assumptions about how the human mind works or should work.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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