By John Webster
John Webster argues that, while any knowing of scripture has to be topic to suitable textual and old interrogation, it's also essential to recognize the targeted personality of scriptural writing. His publication strongly reaffirms that the triune God is on the middle of a scripture-based Christianity. Written with highbrow enthusiasm through a theologian who is familiar with the currents of contemporary secular notion, the quantity develops a positive place on biblical authority.
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It is precisely here that the notion of sanctification proves its utility. For the notion of Scripture as ‘sanctified’ addresses the cluster of problems we have been reviewing by offering a dogmatic ontology of the biblical texts which elides neither their creatureliness nor their relation to the free self-communication of God. At its most basic, the notion states that the biblical texts are creaturely realities set apart by the triune God to serve his self-presence. Thereby, talk of 21 h o ly s c r i p t u r e sanctification moves discussion of the nature of Scripture out of the dualisms of what Gordon Spykman calls ‘two-factor theologies’,20 which continue to force a choice between either a divine or a human text, either inspiration or naturalism.
Essays on the Christian Community (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1989), p. 122. E. ’, in Theological Essays 1 (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1989), p. 205. See, further, E. J¨ungel, ‘Der Gottesdienst als Fest der Freiheit. Der theologische Ort des Gottesdienstes nach Friedrich Schleiermacher’, Zeichen der Zeit 38 (1984), pp. 264–72; ‘Der evangelisch verstandene Gottesdienst’, in Wertlose Wahrheit. Theologische Er¨orterungen III (Munich: Kaiser, 1990), pp. 283–310. On this, see E. J¨ungel, Das Evangelium von der Rechtfertigung des Gottlosen als Zentrum des christlichen Glaubens (T¨ubingen: Mohr, 1998), pp.
25 But precisely in its free transcendence of that which it employs in its service, divine use has a properly ‘horizontal’ dimension as well as a sheerly ‘vertical’ dimension. There is an election and overseeing of the entire historical course of the creaturely reality so that it becomes a creature which may serve the purposes of God. Sanctification is thus not the 25 J. de Senarclens, Heirs of the Reformation (London: SCM, 1963), p. 276. 26 r e v e l at i o n , s a n c t i f i c at i o n a n d i n s p i r at i o n extraction of creaturely reality from its creatureliness, but the annexing and ordering of its course so that it may fittingly assist in that work which is proper to God.