James Torrance on scripture, worship and theology I have long thought and taught that the right road into Christian theology is taken by reflecting on Christian worship in the light of the Bible. The Bible is supremely a manual of worship, but too often it has been treated, particularly in Protestantism, as a manual of […]
Alister McGrath on knowing Christ as friend A head-knowledge may well be better than no knowledge of God at all. But it leaves a lot to be desired. Why? […] It is not enough to know Christ by description; we must know him within the intimacy of a relationship. It is perfectly possible to know […]
Bruce McCormack’s distinction between sources and norms in theology What do we mean when we speak of “sources” of theology? Are “sources” the same thing as “norms” or are they different? Logically, a “source” may mean at least two things. First, it may mean a point of departure for theological reflection, a body of data, a […]
William Abraham’s genealogy of biblical criticism The rise of biblical theology was a pivotal development within Western Christian theology. It did not arise merely because we wanted a proper reading of scripture; it arose because Christian systematic theology had gotten itself into a mess after the Reformation and had therefore invented biblical theology to get […]
Thoughts toward reading scripture as Christians, and not only as historians 1. Hans Frei I am persuaded that historical inquiry is a useful and necessary procedure but that theological reading is reading of the text, and not the reading of a source, which is how historians read it. from [I’ve lost track of the source, […]
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