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Once you turn to the thing itself

Wow ppl are suddenly interested in patristic exegesis because they’ve realized they can use it to say the Bible doesn’t say what it says wow I’m so surprised

The (good) point of figural interpretation is that Scripture is seen to engulf the world and our lives. The bad use is allegorizing away the moments where I am confronted by Scripture

It's wild to consider how Trinitarian and Christological dogma were elaborated according to shockingly literal readings of Scripture against more philosophically consistent heretics.

“Thus God is said both to blind and deafen Israel and to send prophets in the hope that they may see and hear and repent. This is not mere incoherence. It is rather one manifestation of a logic that runs through all scripture.” - Robert Jenson

If you wait until Saturday to think about your sermon, you will never get better at preaching.

Historical theology? Oh, you mean footnotes to Augustine?

easy to spot grad students on campus by the skinny jeans. Stay strong my emo friends 🖤

Ppl always explain the univocal/equivocal predication issue (necessity for analogical predication) with the example of love. "God's love can't be our love, but must be enough like our love, etc". Wh is funny b/c love is precisely the exception for Augustine and everyone else. lol

The Bible will always say what it says. No interpretative forms, however popular and accepted, will protect the church from its words.

Yes, with the exception of a Greenberg Turkey or one my friend makes (brining, injections, etc. etc.)

This is why sola scriptura was always the only option. “Christ gave us the church not the Bible” is a half-baked thought based on having heard someone explain hermeneutics one time at a party. That and just hating American evangelicals.

My exact sentiment. Plenty of room for critique but I got into theology (broadly) by watching his YouTube lectures to learn about the Kingdom of God. I hated reading my whole life until I started ordering his books. I’ll always be grateful for him, as are my mentors

Some ppl don’t know what Christian Twitter was like before Elon ruined it and everyone left. Sigh…

We must rediscover the force and dignity, in part lost, of this term “preaching" in the traditional language. It does not only designate some “oratorical genre" or some sort of "moral teaching." The "word of preaching" is the white horse of the Apocalypse. -De Lubac