Status Updates From Biblical Reasoning: Christo...

Very academic, but the authors are not leaving any stones unturned lol.

Second read for class - glad i underlined the first time

As the transcendent and immutable God, he became what we are without ceasing to be what he is. So we must acknowledge that the one Son who is homoousios with the Father and the Spirit in his divinity became also homoousios with us in his humanity. And this was for our sake, that we might be adopted into the life he eternally enjoys with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Doctrine is therefore chiefly divine teaching: being taught by God, about God, to lead us to God. Discourse about God—theology—is thus poorly conceived if it is divorced from the presence and activity of the God who discourses about himself. . . . Beholding Christ by faith requires that we hear and obey Christ’s teaching. In order to understand Christ’s teaching, we must reason both exegetically and dogmatically.

Exegesis is not merely the analysis of historical background and cultural encyclopedia, the situations of writer and recipients, word meanings, grammar, flow of thought, intracanonical connections, and the unfolding of redemptive history. Exegesis is also, inescapably, reasoning about the subject matter of the text: God and all things in relation to God