Philosophy

The Son of Eve disarmed Satan’s hold on humanity, not with an earthquake, atomic bomb, or brilliant essay, but with his dead body and final words, “It is finished.”

If you want to boil Schleiermacher down to some foundation upon which to build up his theology, think feelings.

And in the final analysis it isn’t a matter of whether you use rhetoric, but how. Inasmuch as your preaching is still public speaking...you’re going to get rhetorical.

Theology is not to simply adopt the positions and presuppositions of philosophy, nor should it reject philosophy.

Jesus does not say to us, “Try really hard, and you will be better.”