Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century

“God,” to Thomas, is merely a label we place at the spot where we wonder, “Why is there something rather than nothing? What does it all mean? Why anything rather than nothing?” Aquinas knew he could not provide a fully satisfying answer. “God” is the label Christians use for the human question of “meaning.” As McCabe concludes, “We do not and canno

Reminding ourselves that the Christian god has no name speaks to the ultimately ineffable nature of the divine in orthodox Christianity. It reminds us of the necessary unnameable nature of the god of our faith.

Alister McGrath: “Faith is not simply about believing that a ship exists; it is about stepping into it, and entrusting ourselves to it.”

theologians have been saying for a long time that we should conceive of Christian faith more as a way of life than as assent to a list of propositional assertions.

Scripture is here important not for what it “says” on its surface or in that it provides an environment for theological reflection and imagination, but because somehow scripture “points to” or “refers to” some “truth” that exists apart from the mere reading of the text itself.

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).

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.

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.

tradition is the flow, the changing current, we, as Christians, live in.