Faith Is Never Identical With Piety Even

Exactly Halfway Between Exegesis And Practical Theology Stands Dogmatics.

What God Chooses For Us Children Of Men Is Always The Best.

There Is A Notion That Complete Impartiality Is The Most Fitting And Indeed The Normal Disposition For True Exegesis , Because It Guarantees Complete Absence Of Prejudice. For A Short Time, Around 1910, This Idea Threatened To Achieve Almost A Canonical Status In Protestant Theology. But Now, We Can Quite Calmly Describe It As Merely Comical.

I Had To Show That The Bible Dealt With An Encounter Between God And Man. I Thought Only Of The Apartness Of God. What I Had To Learn After That Was The Togetherness Of Man And God - A Union Of Two Totally Different Kinds Of Beings.

When We Are At Our Wits' End For An Answer, Then The Holy Spirit Can Give Us An Answer. But How Can He Give Us An Answer When We Are Still Well Supplied With All Sorts Of Answers Of Our Own?