Sublime

purpose determines function.

The Christian faith is kaleidoscopic, and most of us are color-blind. It is multidimensional, and most of us manage to hold at most two dimensions in our heads at any one time. It is symphonic, and we can just about whistle one of the tunes.

First,

It is obviously important to know just how wide the river is before we start trying to construct a principlizing bridge across it.

But the distinction remains at the heart of knowing how to preserve a biblical understanding of God.

The immanent frame empowers us for all the blessings of modernity, and inflicts all its woes on us as well.

“pluriformity.”