Michael Root and Nicholas Lash on theologians as authors 1. Michael Root A curse of recent theology has been the cult of the virtuoso theologian, the creative mind who recasts the field, the Schleiermachers and Barths of the discipline, Promethean figures who blaze the path others are to follow. Much academic work in modern theology […]
John Webster on the perennial nature of the intellect’s depravity Thanks are owed to Resident Theology for flagging the following quote (HERE): [W]e would be unwise to think of the depravity of the intellect as a peculiarly modern occurrence, a collateral effect of the naturalization of our view of ourselves. It assumes peculiar modern forms, such as the […]
George Steiner on anti-Semitism as an expression of anti-theism I have throughout my work, and most explicitly in In Bluebeard’s Castle (1971), argued that it is not the accusation of deicide, of the alleged complicity of the Jews in the killing of Jesus of Nazareth, which underlies and sustains Western anti-Semitism. No doubt, Jew-hatred is […]
Donald MacKinnon on Christ’s assumption of temporal existence What it was for [Jesus] to be human was to be subject to the sort of fragmentation of effort, curtailment of design, interruption of purpose, distraction of resolve that belongs to temporal existence. To leave one place for another is to leave work undone; to give attention to […]
Nicholas Lash on Christ’s priority to the Church Is it the case that the church is a community of people who, at any given moment, pre-exist the presence of Christ in their midst, or is it rather the case that the presence of Christ pre-exists, and is the essential precondition for, the existence and activity […]
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