Tuesday, November 2, 2010

In The Beginning...

A sentence that sums up a book that sums up the Christian story:

In the beginning God raised Jesus from the dead.

With these nine words strung together Michael Pahl has hit the proverbial nail on the head. We cannot think theologically (in any Christian sense of the word) unless we begin with the resurrection. I'll return to my acquaintance Karl Barth (whose Church Dogmatics will be delivered to my doorstep in a few weeks) for some back up:

[Jesus Christ's] resurrection is the supreme act of God's sovereignty; henceforth we are bound to live and think in its light.

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