Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Everything that exists exists because of God and exists, as far as we know, as part of the universe. Yet God is not the universe or anything in the universe.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
If one of our canonical sources itself quotes, apparently as “scripture,” a text we do not take as canon, that should make us wary of a too heavy theological dependence on the category of canon.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
doctrine and theology follow practice.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
God does not “have” existence. God is being itself. God cannot not “be” because God is being itself. The (eventually) Aristotelian-Thomist way of saying this is that there is no distinction between God’s essence and God’s existence.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Trusting scripture to convey the word of God to us is just as much a matter of faith as is any other article of faith.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
This is creative, Christian interpretation that uses the text of the Bible as something with which I “think theologically.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
One could see that the older theological notion of an inherent, innate “knowledge of God” is a theological version of a scientific proposal that human beings are, by nature, a religion-making or a god-making species.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The miracle of God’s creation of our world lies not in God’s “punching a hole” in the universe but in God’s ongoing, gracious, loving supply of all that is good.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The miracle of God’s creation of our world lies not in God’s “punching a hole” in the universe but in God’s ongoing, gracious, loving supply of all that is good.