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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