Post by Josh on Feb 12, 2007 19:04:10 GMT -8
1/19/06:
Here's a little more from NT Wright on the subject this week:
So what am I saying? I am saying that we mustn't belittle scripture by bringing the world's models of authority into it. We must let scripture be itself, and that is a hard task. Scripture contains many things that I don't know, and that you don't know; many things we are waiting to discover; passages which are lying dormant waiting for us to dig them out. Awaken them. We must then make sure that the church, armed in this way, is challenging the world's view of authority. So that, we must determine”corporately as well as individually”to become in a true sense, people of the book. Not people of the book in the Islamic sense, where this book just drops down and crushes people and you say it's the will of Allah, and I don't understand it, and I can't do anything about it. But, people of the book in the Christian sense; people who are being remade, judged and remolded by the Spirit through scripture. It seems to me that evangelical tradition has often become in bondage to a sort of lip-service scripture principle even while debating in fact how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. (Not literally, but there are equivalents in our tradition.) Instead, I suggest that our task is to seize this privilege with both hands, and use it to the glory of God and the redemption of the world.
Here's a little more from NT Wright on the subject this week:
So what am I saying? I am saying that we mustn't belittle scripture by bringing the world's models of authority into it. We must let scripture be itself, and that is a hard task. Scripture contains many things that I don't know, and that you don't know; many things we are waiting to discover; passages which are lying dormant waiting for us to dig them out. Awaken them. We must then make sure that the church, armed in this way, is challenging the world's view of authority. So that, we must determine”corporately as well as individually”to become in a true sense, people of the book. Not people of the book in the Islamic sense, where this book just drops down and crushes people and you say it's the will of Allah, and I don't understand it, and I can't do anything about it. But, people of the book in the Christian sense; people who are being remade, judged and remolded by the Spirit through scripture. It seems to me that evangelical tradition has often become in bondage to a sort of lip-service scripture principle even while debating in fact how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. (Not literally, but there are equivalents in our tradition.) Instead, I suggest that our task is to seize this privilege with both hands, and use it to the glory of God and the redemption of the world.