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Tom
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   Posted 2/7/2009 1:02 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

From a blog I visit occasionally. Regarding this whole question of whether and how we are to speak of God:

“God’s infinitude does not signify a lack of our ability to be brought into knowledge of God, or make God unspeakable. It should not be construed as a sort of deferral, but rather as an overabundant arrival that cannot be exhausted. It is not that God is so ineffable that we cannot speak of God, rather God is so utterly excessive in his self-giving that we cannot ever finish saying enough about God. This is why theology must be understood as doxology. God’s excessiveness means that we must never stop saying things about God’s being.”

My sentiments precisely.

We cannot afford not to speak of God, and the fact that God is always more than we are able to say shouldn’t discourage us from, or undermine the possibility of, speaking truthfully about God. It must encourage us to continue to do so while never concluding that our job is done. God’s ineffability means we can never finish speaking of God, not that we can never speak of God. It's a call to humility, not to ignorance.

Tom

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Sahid
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   Posted 2/7/2009 3:07 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I like this. Although, where I usually end up getting stuck is with Jesus. Jesus is the perfect Word. I'm often rebuked for 'limiting' God to Jesus, and told that there's more to God then Jesus. ...yeah... but NO! The ineffable, excessive self-giving is completely expressed in Jesus. To say that we can never finish speaking of God is to say we can never finish speaking about Jesus who fully encapsulates the unfinishable but fully revealed God.
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