Sola Scriptura?
Dan Phillips has posted an excellent article at Pyromaniacs called "How we do Christianity, and the reverse". This post reminded me of a question Stanley Grenz asks:
"Can Christian theology make any claim to speak 'objective truth' in a context in which various communities offer diverse paradigms, each of which is ultimately theological?"
...and...
"Does the move to nonfoundationalism entail a final and total break with metaphysical realism?"
Source: Stanley J. Grenz, Renewing the Center: Evangelical Theology in a Post-Theological Era, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000), 245
I don't agree with the way Grenz answers his own questions (my eschatological beliefs are not inspired by Pannenberg) but I do believe that they are the questions that must be asked.
I can hear those questions being asked in Mr. Phillips essay, though he doesn't literally ask the questions. I highly recommend the article for your perusal.
Also, as just an aside, read his article and then come back here and read the scriptures below. Then, using his thesis, determine for yourself how important the word of God (Scripture) is.
"2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."
The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995 (Ps 138:2).
"12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. 16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever. 17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the mannerc of man, O Lord GOD? 20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant. 21 For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them."
The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995 (2 Sa 7:12-21).
God is the Gospel!
Rick
"Can Christian theology make any claim to speak 'objective truth' in a context in which various communities offer diverse paradigms, each of which is ultimately theological?"
...and...
"Does the move to nonfoundationalism entail a final and total break with metaphysical realism?"
Source: Stanley J. Grenz, Renewing the Center: Evangelical Theology in a Post-Theological Era, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000), 245
I don't agree with the way Grenz answers his own questions (my eschatological beliefs are not inspired by Pannenberg) but I do believe that they are the questions that must be asked.
I can hear those questions being asked in Mr. Phillips essay, though he doesn't literally ask the questions. I highly recommend the article for your perusal.
Also, as just an aside, read his article and then come back here and read the scriptures below. Then, using his thesis, determine for yourself how important the word of God (Scripture) is.
"2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."
The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995 (Ps 138:2).
"12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. 16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever. 17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the mannerc of man, O Lord GOD? 20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant. 21 For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them."
The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995 (2 Sa 7:12-21).
God is the Gospel!
Rick
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