Christ is the singular embodiment of truth, infinitely plural in meaning. Christ is the sum and hidden interior meaning of all other genuine revelations of God
One need not disavow the gifts of intellect in giving thought to their Giver
Here is the essential movement. The reality of the church emerges out of the saving action of God in Christ through the Spirit; the church is the providential means and sphere through which persons ar...
There is no Christian theology without the Bible. There is no Bible without an inspirited community to write, remember, and translate it, to guard it and pass it on, study it, live by it, and invite o...
In the Godhead all historical inequalities are finally transcended.
The worshiping community confesses and intercedes on the basis of, not the theory of God’s existence, but the experience of a multigenerational community of witnesses.
Just as God stepped out of his nature to become a partaker of our humanity, so we are called to step out of our nature to become partakers of his divinity (Hilary of Arles, Intro. Comm. on 2 Pet. 1.4)...
Humanity is God’s constant preoccupation throughout the Bible. The Christian study of God cannot neglect God’s own prevailing interest—the redemption of humanity. No Christian theology can speak only...
Human reasoning is created by God with a capacity for reaching toward God by thinking, choosing, and speaking.
God has left a trail of language behind a stormy path of historical activities. That language is primarily the evidence with which theology has to deal—first with Scripture, then with a long history o...
Between 1946-1956, every turn was a left turn. I had to fend off temptations toward anarchism. I was more deeply drawn into the vision of an egalitarian society shaped by radical social engineering, M...
I sent the first half of the dissertation to Rudolf Bultmann [major figures of early 20th century biblical studies and a prominent voice in liberal Christianity] as a courtesy with an invitation to re...
A critical, probing faith is a necessary and useful stage toward an assured and confirmed faith (Job 3:1–26; Clement of Alex., Stromata 8.9; Luther, Letters of Spiritual Counsel).
The incarnation is God’s own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity.
The great variety of moral qualities attributed to God by Scripture revolves particularly around two—holiness and love. These may be said in summary form to constitute the moral character of God
Rightly understood, it is an all-embracing, intrusive question, and for this reason many prefer to dodge it or to proceed as if it were an abstract, theoretical question.
God foreknows the use of free will, yet this foreknowledge does not determine events. Rather, what God foreknows is determined by what happens, part of which is affected by free will.
Until the end of the 1960's I do not recall ever seriously exchanging ideas with an articulate conservative. They were there, but not on my scope. I systematically avoided any contact with those who w...
Nor can you conclude that Deity is feminine from the gender of the word, and the Spirit neuter, since the designation has nothing to do with generation.
The most urgent and demanding question for Christian believers is not whether a supreme being of some kind exists, but rather whether this incomparably good and powerful and compassionate source and e...