Anticipating Presence
Last week we saw that some of the traditional divine attributes were distinguished on the basis of whether they belonged to reason, or to the realm of the person of faith. In many ways, the theology of “divine presence” belongs decidedly in the latter category.
It is more difficult, for example, to find sections of systematic theologies that correspond precisely with this idea. You may have noticed, for example, that this week’s chunk from Berkhof’s Christian Faith is more tangential to the theme than in earlier weeks.
A glance at the brief article in the Catholic Encyclopedia bears this out. The corresponding article in the Jewish Encyclopedia is on the Shekinah, the “majestic presence” of God, although the term itself is not found in the Hebrew Bible.
We may, then, need to think a little harder about how this theme intersects with other more overtly doctrinal issues, e.g., with revelation (Week 2), or immanence/transcendence (Week 3), or the theology of the Kingdom.
DjR
A glance at the brief article in the Catholic Encyclopedia bears this out. The corresponding article in the Jewish Encyclopedia is on the Shekinah, the “majestic presence” of God, although the term itself is not found in the Hebrew Bible.
We may, then, need to think a little harder about how this theme intersects with other more overtly doctrinal issues, e.g., with revelation (Week 2), or immanence/transcendence (Week 3), or the theology of the Kingdom.
DjR
comments
add a comment
The Trackback URL to this comment is:
http://hbot.freeflux.net/blog/plugin=trackback(52).xml
No new comments allowed (anymore) on this post.
"nice"
"touché"
"Har!
"
"So...Salavation, eh?
Is that when you..."
"P.S. It seems we're not the only ones think..."
"Yes it is rather an introspective rendering of Psa..."
"Lovely poem! Sorley has created a very introspecti..."
"This is a bit random, but Charles Hamilton Sorley ..."
"blogs were very useful in other classes, i think t..."
"Sounds good!"