No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it...

A theologian’s epistemology controls his interpretation of the Bible. If his epistemology is not Christian, his exegesis will be systematically distorted. If he has no epistemology at all, his exegesis will be unsystematically distorted.

Theologians are to look to the _beyond_-community–– _beyond_ nationality; skin-color, gender; sexual orientation, citizenship, religious affiliation––because God, the Divine, who is the primary frame of reference for theologians, is for, with, in, among those individual...

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.