Yet we must insist that the Divine speech both heralds and provides the necessary interpretive framework for redemption. Apart from his speech as the referent of his actions, the purpose of God in history would be unintelligible, supervised by the autonomous subjectivism of the creature rather than a unified, objective construct provided by the [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Late night ramblings
Posted in Christianity, Epistemology, Theology on February 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What is Good?
Posted in Epistemology, Philosophy, Speech/Act, Theology on February 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A friend recently asked me to define “good” for him, he seems to be under the impression that it is not possible; an apparent paradox of this life. My initial response was that God was good and that the question itself pressupposed not only the possibility of definition but one actually. My supposition was [...]
A Question of Foundations
Posted in theological debate on February 1, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I have often wondered if the debate going on between the confessionally reformed and the federal vision camps- I do make a distinction, though it is not meant as a slight, but rather one of denotation- is in fact a secondary or consequent- though valid and necessary- argument and that [...]
