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In other words, in much popular modern Christian thought we have made a three-layered mistake. We have Platonized our eschatology (substituting “souls going to heaven” for the promised new creation) and have therefore moralized our anthropology (substituting a qualifying examination of moral performance for the biblical notion of the human
... See moreN. T. Wright • The Day the Revolution Began
To take a step back once more, when people write about “atonement theology,” the tendency has been to go to Paul and Hebrews and to come to the gospels only for those detached phrases that will support (or so it seems) the kind of “theological” construct that has already been culled from Paul.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
Faith is convicted trust, not vague belief. Faith is a placing of hopes in such a way that hope gets redefined. In the Scriptures, hope does not have the connotation of “I hope such and such will happen,” as if there is some chance it may not. No, in the Scriptures, hope is an assured trust. Our hope is Christ, and this hope will prove true; it
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
What if, instead of starting from the assumption that human beings are thinking things, we started from the conviction that human beings are first and foremost lovers? What if you are defined not by what you know but by what you desire? What if the center and seat of the human person is found not in the heady regions of the intellect but in the
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
In a postmodern church we don’t really need a category of “tradition” separate from scripture as long as scripture is interpreted to reflect the sedimentation of Christian experience of the past.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
In a postmodern church we don’t really need a category of “tradition” separate from scripture as long as scripture is interpreted to reflect the sedimentation of Christian experience of the past.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
In the modern world of theology and biblical studies, scholars began believing that they had to establish first the ancient “meaning” of the text and only after that ask what doctrine, theology, or ethics modern Christians should derive from those ancient texts today.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
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.