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This volume examines what it means to proceed in the path of wisdom by beginning with fear of God, that is, mindfulness always and everywhere of God's being and presence.
Michael Allen describes the praxis of fearing the Lord, how that posture of contemplative pursuit marks the theological task and defines our theological method; in so doing it takes up the significant topics of divine revelation, theological exegesis, intellectual asceticism, and retrieval/ressourcement from a distinctly doctrinal perspective. In each of these conversations, doing theology in the presence of God functions as a consistent thread. God is not mere object but truly functions as subject in the process of theological growth, though God's presence and agency fund rather than negate creaturely theological responsibility.
The Fear of the Lord: Essays on Theological Method explores some of the most central questions of contemporary theological method - revelation, Scripture, theological interpretation, retrieval, intellectual asceticism, scholastic method - by asking in each and every case what it means to think fundamentally of the perfect and present God involved and active in these spheres.
Contents
Introduction
The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom
Chapter 1
"In Your Light We See Light": The Future and Promise of Theology
Chapter 2
Living and Active
Chapter 3
The Creature of the Word
Chapter 4
Divine Transcendence and the Reading of Scripture
Chapter 5
Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology
Chapter 6
On Apocalyptic Theology
Chapter 7
Disputation for Scholastic Theology
Chapter 8
Dogmatics as Ascetics
Chapter 9
The Contemplative and the Active Life
Chapter 10
Reformed Retrieval
Chapter 11
Retrieval and the Prophetic Imagination
Bibliography
Index
