tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post1911539118911367753..comments2024-03-29T06:58:28.383+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Scripture is the book of truth authorised by Jesus Christ (?)Peter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-26616688928929489132009-02-20T08:58:00.000+13:002009-02-20T08:58:00.000+13:00Peter,Well it does come at the close of a closely ...Peter,<BR/>Well it does come at the close of a closely argued line of thinking!<BR/> I don't think we can construct a summary statement without a sense of its potential audience, friendly and hostile, and there is a challenge to contain within it the principles which will unfold to deal with the hostility.<BR/> For this reason I think it needs to hint at a solution to the two testaments hermeneutical issues.<BR/><BR/>RhysAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-85662246434726478952009-02-20T06:37:00.000+13:002009-02-20T06:37:00.000+13:00That is a bit cumbersome of Oliver O' Donovan's, R...That is a bit cumbersome of Oliver O' Donovan's, Rhys!<BR/><BR/>The issues a hostile audience could raise are not readily dealt with in a one sentence definition ... but need careful working through, issue by issue.Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-91300752954709718862009-02-19T20:39:00.000+13:002009-02-19T20:39:00.000+13:00I think the definition works well for a sympatheti...I think the definition works well for a sympathetic audience, but a hostile audience will raise all sorts of questions about literal truths of history, about ethical truths, truths of wisdom, of dogma and so on. I suppose these are actually hermeneutic issues.<BR/> I think we should not forget the brilliant pieces by Oliver O'Donovan, the fulcrum sermons, which seem to me a wonderfully sustained and largely unanswered orthodox view of the issues in the Windsor Report. He describes scripture there (perhaps more cumbrously than usual); "Scripture is, we may say, God's administration of his self-announcement, the record he has authorised to it and the seal he has set on it to confirm that it is true".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com