"Remember that it is not hasty reading, but serious meditation on holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the mere touching of the flower by the bee that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time on the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove to be the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian." (Thomas Brooks)
Here is a link to a great post on Van Til.
posted by Doug E. @ 10:43 PM
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My desire is not merely to know theology, but to live it. But you can't live it if you don't know it!
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I left a comment over there, Doug!
Interesting article! Do you believe Emergents are driven by the same theology proper that Van Til was; i.e. unknowability of God? I'm thinking not . . . but I do see the connection you're making in the sense that both Emergents and Van Til had an underlying "nihilism" and suspicion about anyone who might claim any kind of "certainty" relative to knowledge of God.
I think it's good to recognize dynamism vs. stasis when we view God as a subject (trinity) rather than the unmoved mover of classical theism and Van Til. In other words Emergents have the right desire, IMO, to emphasize relationship with God--but the problem is that in fact they are still operating out of the modernistic/static concepts of God that they supposedly are deconstructing. They haven't jettisoned the Kantian epistemology that they believe they have--so maybe another connection between them and Van Til.
Good post Doug!
Thanks Bobby,
I'm not sure if emergents are driven by the same theology proper. Emergents seems to be driven by a slightly different epistimology, but the results are the same.
Good Points,
Doug
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