A non-Christian in the West typically assumes that reality consists in facts that do not clearly reveal God. If a Christian concedes this assumption, or if he appears to concede it by never challenging it, the special claims of Scripture
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“The rationalistic faith of the Enlightenment has a view of God (Deism), revelation (general, not special), truth (known by reason alone), sin (Pelagianism), Christ (teacher of morality and example of love), atonement (via subjective theories only), salvation (through education and technology), the church (the scientific community), and eschatology (utopia on earth through progress). But most modern people who live their lives as though this set of beliefs were true dislike admitting that they follow a religion. They would rather it was a choice between religion and reason, which is why the myth of the warfare between science and religion was invented in the nineteenth century.”
― Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis
― Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis
“Fred Meuser writes, "Luther deeply loved Jesus - the beautiful, caring, human Jesus of the Gospels. Any sermon that failed somehow to hold up that Lord - whose love reached its pinnacle in his self-giving on the cross - so that others could be amazed, as he had been, and then be drawn to trust in the promises and find peace with God and with self, could not be described as preaching Christ."40”
― Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method
― Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method
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