The Living Word
Dec 5 2014 - 10:43am | N. T. WrightQuotations taken from America, December 2014
"What is the word of God, and how do we hear it?"
"Paul’s 'theology of the word' is about a life-transforming energy which immediately results in new community, not just new ideas.... Paul believed in the personal presence and energy of the one true God being unleashed through the gospel and through its work in the dangerous transformation of human lives. He is not, in other words, simply constructing a system of theological thought, deciding to begin with the Word, with scripture, rather than with something else, such as symbols or images. Paul’s “theology of the word” is about a life-transforming energy which immediately results in new community, not just new ideas."
For all the Year 2 students out there, and anyone else wrestling with the theology and spirituality of St. Paul, I recommend reading the whole article, found online at: http://www.americamagazine.org/paul-and-powerful-word.Note, that this author is N.T. Wright, retired Bishop of Durham in the Church of England, is one of the world’s leading Bible scholars. He participated as an observer in the Roman Catholic 2008 Synod on the Word of God and currently holds a teaching position at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
