Sublime

If our theological vocation emerges out of the matrix of that vision, then we will not be limited to Euro-American definitions of theology. The ecstasy of the poet's vision

In all roles theologians are committed to that form of existence arising from Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. They know that

We have to be careful about building theology from the Psalms unless it can be backed up elsewhere in Scripture.

The label “synagogue of Satan” (also v. 9) strikes modern ears as especially harsh in a post-Holocaust world, but it was not unprecedented in inner-Jewish debate. The community at Qumran associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls, for example, considered other Jews outside their sect to be “a congregation of Beliar,” another name for Satan.2

before modernity, theology and biblical scholarship were the same thing.

it preserved the New Testament’s