Teil I (Biografie), Teil II (Person)
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“Unitarianism affirms the ethic of Jesus as the most wonderful thing since ice cream and negates the divinity of Jesus as superstition.” (382-83)
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“achieving a happy compatibility of incompatibles is part of the maturing effect that marriage is meant to have.” (1238-39)
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“the best theological work has been done under pressure of controversy and urgent need.” (1526)
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“persons denying the full truth of Scripture may claim an evangelical identity while methodologically they have moved away from the evangelical principle of knowledge.” (2284)
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“the Christian tastes God in all his pleasures, and this increases them.” (3247)
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“All doctrines terminate in mystery; for they deal with the works of God.” (3784)
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“I love pregnant brevity, and some of my material is . . . packed tight (Packer by name, packer by nature).” (3794)
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It is “not so much a story of what I have done with the Bible but of what the Bible has done with me” (3851)
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“Built into Christianity is a principle of authority. This is because Christianity is revealed religion.” (4013)
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having the right view of the Bible’s authority and reliability is useless if we do not read the Bible and apply it to our lives. (4037)
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we will not seek to understand the Bible unless we accept its authority; (2) we will understand it only insofar as we interpret it correctly; (3) understanding the Bible means receiving its teaching; and (4) God gives this understanding by his Holy Spirit and by the input of the Christian community and its traditions. (4048-51)
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we must interpret a biblical text in keeping with the author’s intention; (2) we must assume the coherence, harmony, and veracity of the Bible; (3) we must interpret individual parts of the Bible by placing them into the context of the entire biblical canon; and (4) we must respond to a biblical text with an increase of our faith. (4089-91)
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“Have something to say.” (2) “Keep it simple.” (3) “Make it flow.” (4) “Be willing to redraft as often as is necessary to meet these requirements.” (4511-13)
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“The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God’s facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God’s truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.” (4792)
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“Theology is for doxology and devotion—that is, the praise of God and the practice of godliness.” (5503)
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“Theology’s proper goal,” he writes, “is to equip the disciples of Jesus Christ for obedience.” (5530)
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“To be preoccupied with getting theological knowledge as an end in itself . . . is the direct route to a state of self-satisfied self-deception.” (5584-85)
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“Like Calvin, I theologize in constant dialogue with the whole Christian heritage of study, proclamation, and belief. . . . Theology is a cooperative enterprise, and the fellowship of its practitioners has a historical as well as a contemporary dimension.” (5636-38)
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“Christianity is not instinctive to anyone, nor is it picked up casually without effort. It is a faith that has to be learned, and therefore taught, and so some sort of systematic instruction (catechumenate) is an essential part of a church’s life.” (5689-91)
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When a Christian minister moves into a congregation, he “has first of all to make sure that there is a willingness on the part of the congregation to learn the Bible.” (5914-15)
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The pastor should see himself as a man set apart to preach Bible truth, to teach Christ and to counsel the spiritually perplexed in light of the written Word; to convert, nurture, watch over and care for sinners; to pray for them, bring wisdom to them, model godliness before them, and lead them into and in doxology, fidelity, purity, humility, maturity, and joy in Christ; and to fight in whatever way particular situations might require for the fullness and forthrightness of the faith. (5928-31)
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The only way for a preacher to avoid making himself the authority is for him to see “himself as no less under the authority of the Word than the congregation. (5971-72)
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“the preacher, rather than the critical commentator or the academic theologian, is the true interpreter of Scripture.” (6039-40)
