Paradox In Christian Theology
Paul Manata of Triablogue has written an excellent and thorough review of James Anderson’s Paradox In Christian Theology.
Read the review here, and buy the book here.
How many theological controversies could be avoided if we would simply rest in the understanding that we can’t understand everything?
April 3, 2008 at 10:19 am
Maybe “that we can’t understand everything” is one of the things we can’t understand.
April 4, 2008 at 8:13 pm
In which case, the assertion is still true (that we can’t understand everything). Except now it is also false, since the assertion that the former assertion is a misunderstanding is true. Thus, I don’t think your “Mabye” is possible at all. It is not a “mabye,” but a “definitely not.”
If the assertion that “We aren’t right about everything” were itself wrong (so, indeed we are right about everything), then it would never be uttered.
April 5, 2008 at 7:08 am
That’s interesting, I read a book this summer that was geared towards the exact same premise….Christianity is a paradox, and truths must be held in proper tension. It’s called “The Seduction of Extremes” by Peter Kurowski, very good read, very insightful, but also very quickly finished.
April 5, 2008 at 7:27 am
Xon: if you have to explain a joke…
April 8, 2008 at 5:20 am
Rube, I wasn’t explaining a “joke.” I think your error is serious baloney. Serious, serious baloney. And I don’t sit by and do nothing when other people attack the peace and purity of the Church I love, who is a gentle lady who stands or falls by the doctrine of justification by faith. Which you have somehow denied in your comment. And you want to pass this off as vain jesting. Maybe that flies where you come from, Rube, but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Which means no funny, ever.
April 8, 2008 at 6:31 am
If I had been serious when I said ‘Maybe “that we can’t understand everything” is one of the things we can’t understand,’ then perhaps my self-referential joke would have been serious, serious bologna. As for “no funny, ever,” you better go repent, because you’ve enjoyed my jokes before.