” For those who believe that God meets us in personal address in and through the Scriptures, biblical language cannot be reduced to symbolized expressions of pious experience. This means that while it is certainly true that particular biblical metaphors for God will have different meanings for different groups in different times and places- sometimes liberating, sometimes jarring, sometimes reinforcing negative stereotypes- we must never forget that the traffic runs in the other direction too. What if our own presuppositions are governed by the will to power as well? After all, ‘Christendom’ has employed a variety of strategies, including democratic egalitarianism, in its will to power. Christian theology already has its own hermeneutics of suspicion in its account of the noetic effects of sin as suppressing the truth in unrighteousness (Rom. 1:18). This is done by all of us, regardless of how validated we feel in our own ideology.”
Michael S. Horton
