Go home!



NOTE: This is a fan page.
Dr. Leithart does not have a Facebook account.

RECENT ENTRIES
-Personal Mystery
-Miracles of authority
-Structure of Song 3:6-11
-Sacrifice of Solomon
-Manifest Domesticity
-Elizabethan Plagiarism
-Barbie
-Ancient surgery
-Structure in Song of Songs 3
-Against Christianity
-Lion to Lamb
-Black and beautiful
-Between Memory and Desire
-Blood and smoke
-Ovine throne
-Slain Lamb Standing
-Starting over
-Judge, Lawgiver, King
-Structure in Isaiah 33
-Treasures of wisdom
CATEGORY ARCHIVES
    • LINKS
    - Biblical Horizons
    - Covenant Worldview Institute
    - Theologia
    FEED

    CONTACT

    Comments:
    leithart@leithart.com

    Problems:
    webmaster@leithart.com





    |
    |

    Bible: Knife of Canon

    [Print] | [PDF] | [Email]

    Webster ends his interesting Barthian discussion of the canon by noting that Christians should be grateful for the genealogies of modern thought that “trace the history, observe the corruptions of producers and their products, and so cast the mighty from their thrones.”  But in the end he advocates another response to the immantization of the canon: “to talk of the canon dogmatically as that means of grace through which the judgment of the apostolic gospel is set before the church.  If the canon is a function of God’s communicative fellowship with an unruly church, if it is part of the history of judgment and mercy, then it cannot simply be a stabilizing factor, a legitimating authority.  Rather, as the place where divine speech may be heard, it is – or ought to be – a knife at the church’s heart.”

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Monday, September 6, 2010 at 7:48 pm