23 December 2010

New Lutheran Quote of the Day

The data of faith are simply given; everything follows and nothing may be set above or before such data.  Divine initiative and freedom may not be infringed.  The living God cannot tolerate any a priori; if there is to be a definition only he can give it.  This he has done in His and Mary's Son.  This is without necessity and analogy.  He did it; it happened, there it is. -- Dr. Norman Nagel, Seven-Headed Luther, p. 42, 43.

[This citation, by the bye, represents the core insight, I believe, into the way Dr. Nagel so fabulously does theology.  It explains how he sees all that he sees the way he does.]

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