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By Rowan Forster, published 24/12/2014'The harmony of natural law ... reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.'
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"Not many Christian thinkers would have seen these as mutually exclusive; NT is a completion of OT not an either-or alternative. Neither is metaphysics as an explanation of Genesis seen as an alternative to ethics based on Jesus’ teachings."
Happily the truth in these matters does not lie in a head count! I agree that the NT is an extension of the Hebrew Scriptures but that does not mean that the thought forms of the latter are set in concrete or are incapable of reinterpretation. Each age has always done theology in its own context. The NT had to grapple with the divinity of Jesus, heresy for Jews, and formulate a way of speaking that incorporated Jesus into the godhead in the doctrine of the Trinity. This was a long way from many expressions of the being of God in the Hebrew Scriptures. Likewise, we in our time, a time dominated by our new understanding of nature, have to reformulate, reinterpret theology. It is no longer possible to talk about the God Christians worship in terms of undifferentiated monotheism of some parts of the OT, although not all of the OT. Our understanding of nature has made the simple proclamation of God as creator of all things problematic. That does not mean that the theology of creation be abandoned, but it does mean that we probe more deeply what it does mean. The profession of God as creator for a pre-scientific culture is simple. But for us that simplicity has evaporated. Rather, we may say that God is not the creator of a thing, we may leave the existence of things to natural science, but we may say that God is the creator of a new history, a new people, a new understanding of what it means to be human.