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----- Original Message -----
From: Lance Muir
Sent: March 10, 2004 06:11
Subject: David: Not a question but another quotation.. "Theological statements operate with what we may
call open concepts-concepts which, to be sure, must be closed on our side, for
we have to formulate them as carefully and exactly as we can, but which on God's
side are open to the infinite objectivity and inexhaustible reality of the
divine Being. That is to say, the kind of conceptuality with which we operate in
theology is one in which our acts of cognition are formed from beyond them by
the reality disclosed so that the content of what is revealed constantly bursts
through the forms we bring to it in order to grasp it. This can happen only
under the power of the Spirit, as He presses upon us from the side of the divine
Being. The Spirit is thus the act of God upon us which keeps our concepts or
cognitive forms open, so that our thoughts and speech are stretched out beyong
themselves toward the inexhaustible nature of the divine Being. Apart from this
impact of the Spirit upon us, the forms of our thought and speech become quite
obscure and indeed may even become a form of obstruction to the divine
revelation or a means of suppressing the truth through the transmutation of
knowledge into our own constructs. It is worship which keeps the epistemological
process personal."Lance
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