Michelle Walstra’s Reviews > Collected Writings on Scripture > Status Update

“The aim of thoughtful Christians, after all, is not so much to become masters of scripture, but to be mastered by it, both for God‘s glory and his people’s good.”

“Aligned with the powerful respect contemporary Western culture assigns to pluralism, this new hermeneutic rules no interpretation invalid except that one which claims it is right and others are invalid.”

Accurate!

“He has ensured that his own self-disclosure should be abundantly clear to those who by grace have eyes to see and ears to hear, but can never be as rigorously self-evident as a mathematical theorem where human beings control all the definitions and the rules of the relationships.”

“…the nature of God’s gracious self-manifestation, taking place in ordinary history, ensures that there can be no escape from historical enquiry.

If Jesus Christ never lived, Christianity is destroyed; if he never died on the cross, Christianity is destroyed; if he never rose from the dead, Christianity is destroyed.”