God’s deconstruction
Posted by Paul | Filed under uncategorised
The epistemology of the cross is far more deconstructive of human ideologies and belief policies than anything post-modernity has yet produced. That God reveals himself on Christ’s cross as one who suffers and dies is an implicit correction, if not outright rejection, of the attempt to think of God on the basis of reason alone: “Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?” (1 Cor 1:20) This is why the confessions of the Reformed churches recognise the inherent corrigibility of theological formulations. The confessions themselves have only relative and provisional authority; they are under the Word of God and thus subject to correction from it. There is a built-in iconoclasm, an intrinsic guard against the tendancy to let a community’s language and concepts dictate what can be known of God. An epistemology of the cross incorporates ideology critique into its very fabric.
Kevin Vanhoozer in First Theology
Tags: church, postmodernism, theology
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