Comments on: Grundt work http://www.confessingevangelical.com/?p=2434 Test everything; hold on to what is good Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:38:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael http://www.confessingevangelical.com/?p=2434&cpage=1#comment-66167 Michael Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:20:49 +0000 http://www.confessingevangelical.com/?p=2434#comment-66167 Grundtvig thought the creed was the Apostles' Creed because it was went back to the original Apostles'. I believe that is the only significant mistake that Grundtvig makes in this approach to theology. He inadvertently reinscribes the same bibliophile approach by shifting the question to the historical claim about the origin of the creed. But the emphasis on the living word in the community of Christians prepared by the Spirit to interpret the text appropriately is excellent, I think. Grundtvig thought the creed was the Apostles’ Creed because it was went back to the original Apostles’. I believe that is the only significant mistake that Grundtvig makes in this approach to theology. He inadvertently reinscribes the same bibliophile approach by shifting the question to the historical claim about the origin of the creed.

But the emphasis on the living word in the community of Christians prepared by the Spirit to interpret the text appropriately is excellent, I think.

]]> By: SimonPotamos http://www.confessingevangelical.com/?p=2434&cpage=1#comment-65144 SimonPotamos Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:24 +0000 http://www.confessingevangelical.com/?p=2434#comment-65144 To put it another way, while we should affirm the truthfulness of Scripture, our focus should be on the power or effectiveness of God’s word. The truthfulness is a necessary postulate of the power, but the power comes of the Word being the viva vox evangelii, the living voice of the Gospel—Christ Himself.

The Word of God is not fundamentally a set of utterances by (or, in the case of theological liberalism, about) God, but a person.

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