Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
am heartened when Pavel Florensky calls theology “an empirical science.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
We look at every child as a miracle and a fresh creation from God. We rejoice in the passion of a lover as a creation of God. We cherish the love of our family and are reminded all the time that God, as creator and miracle worker, rewards us with all good things—not for anything we have done or not done but because of God’s unavoidable nature of
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The way the authors of the New Testament treated their own scripture, and doubtless the way the historical Jesus did so, demonstrate that whatever they meant by the “inspiration” of scripture, it was nothing like what that has meant for fundamentalist or evangelical Christians in the modern world.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
there is no knowledge that is arrived at without recourse to persuasion. All knowledge is, in the end, simply belief held very confidently—confidently enough that we feel completely safe acting on that knowledge. As
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The thing that makes many people say they believe in God is the wonder of the world.51 This is not a “proof.” It is merely to say that the wonder expresses itself in some of us as faith in God. Faith is merely the expression of the wonder that we live in a world wonderfully made.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
For a robust, and complicated, treatment of various difficult doctrines centered around the incarnation, see Gerald O’Collins, Incarnation. O’Collins,
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
the doctrine of transcendence must always be accompanied by the contradictory-sounding doctrine of divine immanence: the teaching that God is fully “in” the world even without being “part” of it.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Eagleton complains that many people commit “the blunder of believing that religion is a botched attempt to explain the world, which is like seeing ballet as a botched attempt to run for a bus” (50).
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
As Hauerwas puts it, “Aquinas was right that only God is pure act. Only in God are existence and essence one. Accordingly, our language about God is necessarily analogical, which means that theology has the task of helping the church not say more about God than needs to be said.” Hannah’s Child, 52.