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“God saw the people of Israel — and God knew.” - Exodus 2:25
“What is there, then in Christ Jesus? There is that which horrifies: the dissolution of history in history, the destruction of the structure of events within their known structure, the end of time in the order of time.” - Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans, pg. 103 (on Romans 3:24)
“It is the metaphysically fundamental fact of Israel’s and the church’s faith that its God is freely but, just so, truly self-identified by, and so with, contingent created temporal events.” — Robert W. Jenson, Systematic Theology, 1:46, 48
We are a culture obsessed with ideas. In order to gratify our insatiable need for more thinking — more right thinking, we think — we have created what we call “content.” The content produced is then produced again…and again. A pompous 18-minute talk given by an expert or pseudo expert (what’s the difference these days, anyway?), packaged into a “radio hour,” posted as a podcast, produced as a video, transcribed as a blog…more ideas, please.
We read an article and quickly insert into a conversation with someone who is tolerating our pontifications: “I was reading an article…” We listen to podcasts, dumping information and stories into our heads, “getting the gist of it,” listening to the interview with…
