A little Pete Rollins to wet your appetite (an excerpt from The Fidelity of Betrayal):
In opposition to these attempts (Conservative and Liberal) at closing over the unspeakable rupture, a truly devotional reading of the text involves encouraging this mystery to be made manifest as a mystery and exploring how we are to celebrate, invite and affirm that mystery. The theologian here acts as a type of anti-theologian (here he goes again) for instead of placing God (theos) into language (logos), the theologian can help us to dive into the great abyss of that mystery and cherish its transformative power…
God’s word is thus testified to indirectly by the parallactical (something that reveals a mystery) nature of the text itself, being communicated by the rich, weaving web of wounded words that testify to the happening of a Devinne event.
In short his point is that if we beleive that the Bible bears witness to the Word of God we should expect it to be “wounded words” affected by the “volcanic revelation” of God’s presence in the text.
Chew on that for a while!
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