#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...as AWEsome

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#ReimagineSCRIPTURE...as AWEsome

Phil Miglioratti

 

#ItSeemsToMe...

Our Western minset, for all it's analytical benefits, causes us to declare but donwplay "mystery."

My take from the article (linked to below) is that we overbalance to "How do we explain, exegete, the mystery?" and almost ignore "How must we respond to the mystery latent in the passage?"

When we appraoch Holy Scripture, must must not jetison a critical analysis of the text.

But we must also, before, during, and after we disect the words and their meaing, stand (or kneel) in awe; awesome praise that produces raidcal living.

 

√out the article referred to above

 

[Reimagine Curator]

From Roger E. Olson - -

 

"I have at times pretended to respect certain Christian theologians of the past and present who believed ridiculous things while claiming (or at least seeming to claim) to be reasonable thinkers, not irrationalists. Well, I can and do respect many of them for the good ideas they held and taught, but I struggle to respect them when I come across their more ridiculous, ludicrous ideas.

 

"As a Christian theologian I am embarrassed by some of the really dumb things some Christian theologians have taught that just can’t be true. What were they thinking? I have no explanation for it. I suspect the explanations differ from one theologian to another.

"The main one, which appears in various forms throughout Christian history since Augustine, is that God determines sin and evil without being responsible for them (while those who do evil and sin ARE responsible for them).

"Am I exempt? Well, this is one reason I have never reached toward systematic theology. I doubt anyone can write a comprehensive systematic theology without stumbling into contradiction. Now that does not discount “dogmatics” which is not necessarily the same as systematic theology. A dogmatics can be just an account of Christian doctrines. A systematic theology is an attempt to create an entirely coherent and comprehensive system where all the pieces (doctrines) are entirely consistent with each other. I haven’t found that yet."

 

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