Halden har hittat ett lysande Yoder-citat som bör vinna spridning ...“The incarnation does not mean that humankind in general, or human nature in general, or human history in general was stamped with God’s approval or transformed by God’s indwelling, but rather that a particular story, the words and work of a particular man, is the key to the very nature of God. That particularity is even more scandalous if we reckon deeply with the fact that the historicity of the incarnation committed God to the particularity of an ongoing history. God entrusted the incarnational disclosure not only to a first generation of witnesses of the man Jesus, but also to the necessarily ensuing chain of specific bodies of tradition-bearing, fallible people who through the centuries would unfold and distort the message. It is not a regrettable mistake of church strategy contrary to the divine plan, when we find ourselves needing to deal with the unfinished quality of the definition of the Christian story.”
~ John Howard Yoder, To Hear the Word, 97-8. (New Edition forthcoming from Cascade Books)
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denna skatt har vi i lerkärl, var det nån som sa (2 kor väl)..
Hear, hear! 2 Kor 4:7 Borde stämma till lite epistemologisk ödmjukhet, som det så fint heter :)
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