Robyn Banks
February 23rd 2003, 01:17 AM
Language makes shared experiences available to all
within the linguistic community. So too, theology
“explores the world-constructing, knowledge-forming,
identity forming ‘language’ of the Christian
community.” (p53)
Although the world-in-itself predates the linguistic
world of our own making, we inhabit the latter. Human
reality is “socially constructed reality.”
The Christian objectivity of the world is not the
world as it is, but the world as God wills it to be.
"At that time his voice shook the earth; but now he
has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the
earth but also the heaven." This phrase, "Yet once
more," indicates the removal of what is shaken - that
is, created things - so that what cannot be shaken may
remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom
that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we
offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and
awe."
(Heb 12:26-28)
This is a future reality.
"For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered or come to
mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am
creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,
and its people as a delight. I will rejoice in
Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the
sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of
distress."
(Isa 65:17-19)
"And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See,
I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write
this, for these words are trustworthy and true.""
(Rev 21:5)
It is more objectively real than the present world:
"For the present form of this world is passing away."
(1 Cor 7:31)
“As the community of Christ, we have a divinely given
mandate: to be participants in God’s work of
constructing a world that reflects God’s own will for
creation, a world in which everything finds its
connectedness in Jesus Christ (Col 1:17) who is the
logos, the ordering principle of the cosmos as God
intends it to be.”
“The Spirit’s goal is to bring us to view all reality
in accordance with God’s program of molding creation
into conformity with the divine eternal purpose
through Jesus Christ, the Son, so that as the
community of Christ we might inhabit a world that
truly reflects God’s purposes for creation.” (p54,
Grenz, Stanley J & Franke, John R _Beyond
Foundationalism – Shaping Theology in a Postmodern
Context_ (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press,
2001))
within the linguistic community. So too, theology
“explores the world-constructing, knowledge-forming,
identity forming ‘language’ of the Christian
community.” (p53)
Although the world-in-itself predates the linguistic
world of our own making, we inhabit the latter. Human
reality is “socially constructed reality.”
The Christian objectivity of the world is not the
world as it is, but the world as God wills it to be.
"At that time his voice shook the earth; but now he
has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the
earth but also the heaven." This phrase, "Yet once
more," indicates the removal of what is shaken - that
is, created things - so that what cannot be shaken may
remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom
that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we
offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and
awe."
(Heb 12:26-28)
This is a future reality.
"For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered or come to
mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am
creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,
and its people as a delight. I will rejoice in
Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the
sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of
distress."
(Isa 65:17-19)
"And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See,
I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write
this, for these words are trustworthy and true.""
(Rev 21:5)
It is more objectively real than the present world:
"For the present form of this world is passing away."
(1 Cor 7:31)
“As the community of Christ, we have a divinely given
mandate: to be participants in God’s work of
constructing a world that reflects God’s own will for
creation, a world in which everything finds its
connectedness in Jesus Christ (Col 1:17) who is the
logos, the ordering principle of the cosmos as God
intends it to be.”
“The Spirit’s goal is to bring us to view all reality
in accordance with God’s program of molding creation
into conformity with the divine eternal purpose
through Jesus Christ, the Son, so that as the
community of Christ we might inhabit a world that
truly reflects God’s purposes for creation.” (p54,
Grenz, Stanley J & Franke, John R _Beyond
Foundationalism – Shaping Theology in a Postmodern
Context_ (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press,
2001))