Quotables
QUOTABLES FROM SCJ 12.1 (quotables from other issues)
Chosen by Ethelene Bruce White
Graduate Student Harding University Graduate School of Religion
"In a tradition that owes much of its idiosyncratic character to the rational hermeneutic method adopted from the philosophies of Locke and Bacon, the proposition that religious faith is rational, and as such, may dialogue with and benefit from the academic disciplines, including the sciences, ought not to be controversial."
Jennifer J. Thweatt-Bates, "How to Talk about Religion and Science . . . Rationally" (SCJ 12.1:37-38)
"Indeed, the task of biblical interpretation was especially significant for the newborn SCM movement because it advocated sola scriptura without secondary doctrinal standards."
James O. Duke, "The Hermeneutics of the Early Stone-Campbell Movement" (SCJ 12.1:4)
"While opposing the notion of a direct or immediate, efficient causal illumination of the Holy Spirit, [Robert] Richardson was concerned throughout his career with investigating—and highlighting—manifold indirect influences of the Spirit operative in and through Scripture (as God's written Word) and other of God's means of grace."
James O. Duke, "The Hermeneutics of the Early Stone-Campbell Movement" (SCJ 12.1:9)
"First, one does not walk in Campbell's shoes by adopting the same methods and frameworks he adopted in his engagement of the church and world; one does so by asking in our day the same kinds of questions he asked in his. So rather than ask how Scottish Baconianism may be adapted to unite God's people, we might ask how postmodern through, for example, may serve church unity."
John C. Nugent, "Was Alexander Campbell Enslaved to Scottish Baconianism?" (SCJ 12.1:22)
"Noncreedal Campbellites may also find relevance in Campbell's insistence that when it comes to membership, discipleship, and church unity, we must promote liberty of opinion with reference to speculative ideas arrived at by climbing the ladder of abstraction beyond the words of Scripture."
John C. Nugent, "Was Alexander Campbell Enslaved to Scottish Baconianism?" (SCJ 12.1:29)
"As specific reasoning strategies, theology and science both participate in the universal quest for intelligibility but neither reasoning strategy is autonomous or self-sufficient."
Jennifer J. Thweatt-Bates, "How to Talk about Religion and Science . . . Rationally" (SCJ 12.1:35)
"In order to facilitate spiritual formation through our preaching, we must let the Spirit form us and our preaching."
Bruce E. Shields, "Preaching and the Vocabulary of the Spirit" (SCJ 12.1:44)
"Our spiritual growth depends to a great extent on a spiritual vocabulary—a way of talking about God and the divine in our lives. Preaching can give us that and can even encourage the use of such words in the church and beyond."
Bruce E. Shields, "Preaching and the Vocabulary of the Spirit" (SCJ 12.1:46)
"God's patient endurance serves God's desire to make known all his glorious attributes and not merely wrath and power."
Joseph Hoover, "The Wealth of God's Glory: A Response to John Piper's 'Four Problems in Romans 9:22-23'" (SCJ 12.1:52)
"So God's chief aim in his sovereignty is that those who resisted his will and fitted themselves for condemnation might see in Jesus the wealth of his glory (wrath, power, mercy), present themselves solely to God in worship, and thus prove by their new manner of life that submitting to God's will is good and all-satisfying."
Joseph Hoover, "The Wealth of God's Glory: A Response to John Piper's 'Four Problems in Romans 9:22-23'" (SCJ 12.1:58)
"The accuracy of our English Bibles is therefore at the heart of the matter. How can we make progress if our foundation is flawed, if we are indeed reading the wrong words?"
J. David Miller, "Translating Paul's Words about Women" (SCJ 12.1:62)
"Let us not be content with translations that are close to correct. Paying careful attention to the details of translated biblical texts is necessary groundwork."