Jake McAtee’s Reviews > The Culture of Theology > Status Update

"In and through [the Bible], God makes the gospel into a commanding presence. Holy Scripture disturbs. Precisely as the medium of God's holiness, it is a rock thrown in our path, an onslaught which smites our idolatries and us as idolaters. In this text we are arrested and addressed by God."

"Christian astonishment is the amazed realization that all human life and thought is undertaken in the presence of Easter, for Jesus the living one makes himself into our contemporary, startling us with the fact that he simply is . . . if Christian theology is indeed to be 'serious, fruitful and edifying' . . . it cannot be a stranger to the disruption which amazement brings."