thinking in two directions
Posted by Paul | Filed under uncategorised
Listening to a recent talk by Tom Wright, I was interested by a comment he made that we can go both directions on our theology of the cross: we can start with the cross and find our way to the resurrection, etc. Or we can start with God’s aim of new creation and work our way back to the cross. The hope is that the two meet up in the middle.
I guess this is the case for all our theology — we can start at the start of the story and work forward or we can start at the end and work back. I think that the second is probably less frequent in our current intellectual environment, because we are more interested in cause and effect and less convinced about our knowledge of the end purpose. (Or whether there is such a thing as purpose.). But from a Christain point of view we always have the option to do either — or both. Of course, the problems arise when we go from both ends and find we can’t join the two up in the middle! Then we have to look at where our theology has gone wrong.
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