Quotables

QUOTABLES FROM SCJ 12.2 (quotables from other issues)
Chosen by Jamey and Heather Gorman
Ph.D. Students at Baylor University

"Focusing on what the First Amendment prohibits should not prevent us from recognizing and maximizing the opportunities it provides."

Carrie Birmingham, "Preparing the Soil: The Mission of Christian Teachers in Public Schools." (SCJ 12.2:194)

"Beginning in the late 1960s, another interpretation of the Declaration and Address began to gain traction among Churches of Christ. It took both the restoration and unity themes of the document seriously but saw both not as accomplished works but as desirable aims."

Gary Holloway, "Restoration, Unity, and Freedom: How churches orf Christ (A Cappella) Have Interpreted the Declaration and Address"  (SCJ 12.2:169)

"An increasingly popular view among the Church of Christ writers in the last few decades is that the Declaration and Address views freedom, not restoration, as the path toward Christian unity."

Gary Holloway, "Restoration, Unity, and Freedom: How churches orf Christ (A Cappella) Have Interpreted the Declaration and Address"  (SCJ 12.2:172)

"Those who think Churches of Christ are the entire, united, true church see the Declaration and Address as a pattern for a restoration fully accomplished in Churches of Christ. Those who wish to be more open to other Christians see it as a call to both restoration and unity in our own time. Those who want to embrace the whole wide Christian world see it as an invitation to freedom."

Gary Holloway, "Restoration, Unity, and Freedom: How churches orf Christ (A Cappella) Have Interpreted the Declaration and Address"  (SCJ 12.2:174-75)

"The essence of Campbell's sermon is that Christians are not under the Mosaic law but under the new covenant in Christ. This includes the Ten Commandments...Only those laws repromulgated by Christ apply to Christians."

Joe M. Sprinkle, "Alexander Campbell's View of the Mosaic Law" (SCJ 12.2:178)

"An approach that seeks the moral and spiritual principles of the law that transcend the covenants is one that can acknowledge Campbell's insights and at the same time correct Campbell's excesses concerning the Mosaic law."

Joe M. Sprinkle, "Alexander Campbell's View of the Mosaic Law" (SCJ 12.2:191)

"In Ecclesiastes, the theology of the book is to be derived from the frame narrator as he evaluates Qohelet's message to his son in the epilogue."

Tremper Longman III, "Challenging the Idols of the Twenty-First Century The Message of the Book of Ecclesiastes " (SCJ 12.2:208)

"In the end, though, Qohelet wants to do more than expose his son to 'under the sun' thinking. He wants to lead him to an 'above the sun' perspective."

Tremper Longman III, "Challenging the Idols of the Twenty-First Century: The Message of the Book of Ecclesiastes" (SCJ 12.2:213)

"But if 'the present age' did not end precisely as 'the age to come' began to make itself felt, then one should expect that the salvific work of the Messiah might be multifaceted and executed in stages . This is precisely what we find in Mark's Gospel."

Barry Blackburn, "Liberation, New Covenant, and Kingdom of God: A Soteriological Reading of the Gospel According to Mark (SCJ 12.2:222) (SCJ 12.1:52)

"Through Jesus, we have already tasted the powers of the age to come, and in eagerness and wonder we lean into the future and strain forward toward the new world that he has promised us."

Barry Blackburn, "Liberation, New Covenant, and Kingdom of God: A Soteriological Reading of the Gospel According to Mark" (SCJ 12.2:233)

"Puritan interpreters, though maintaining the centrality of the theological doctrine of justification by faith alone (sola fide), defended the canonicity of James based on their equally central hermeneutical doctrine of the analogy of faith (analogia fidei), which asserts that Scripture must conform to orthodox teaching."

Derek Cooper, "The Analogy of Faith in Puritan Exegesis:.Scope and Salvation in James 2:14-26 " (SCJ 12.2:236)

"According to the Puritan exegetes, the errors of the early Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Arminians, and Socinians, was their failure to correctly identify the scope of the letters of these apostles, thereby hindering a proper reconciliation of Romans with James."

Derek Cooper, "The Analogy of Faith in Puritan Exegesis.: Scope and Salvation in James 2:14-26 " (SCJ 12.2:248)