Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Kähler’s more famous slogan: “This real Christ is the Christ who is preached. The Christ who is preached, however, is the Christ of faith.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
As Herbert McCabe puts it, “So far as God is concerned what we are offered in the Church and its scriptures is not further information but a share in his life.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
God, thinks Aquinas, cannot literally intervene in the universe because he is always there—just as much in the normal, natural run of things as in the resurrection of Christ or in any other miraculous event.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
with the doctrine of the incarnation, Christians get to have it both ways: God is certainly transcendent and utterly “other” than the universe, but in the person of Jesus Christ we believe in a human being who is also divine.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
my favorite answer to people who wonder why I have faith is, “Because God allows me to. For some reason beyond me, God gave me the gift of faith. You’ll have to ask God why.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
We all must depend to some extent on others for knowledge of God and Christ. Knowledge is social—as are we.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
God is not the one who causes the suffering but the one who will bring relief.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Foundationalism is the idea that we, scientists with nature or readers with texts, can find some place that will provide a dependable “basis” of firm, secure, incontrovertible “knowledge” on which we can then build systems of secondary values, beliefs, systems of thought or belief. Nonfoundationalists argue that no such place exists in the universe
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Note also that of all the attributes and virtues Paul ascribes to love—it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things—Paul never says that love “knows all things.” Love, like us, also must wait in order to know. We as Christians don’t know; we believe.