Quotes from Kevin J. Vanhoozer

Para ministrar a palavra de Deus, os pastores-teólogos precisam ler não só a Bíblia, mas também o mundo ao qual a Palavra de Deus é dirigida, o mundo em que ela deve estabelecer e ser aplicada. (p. 153-4)

The basic gist: theology has been more or less banished from Jerusalem. Theology is in exile and, as a result, the knowledge of God is in ecclesial eclipse. The promised land, the gathered people of God, has consequently come to resemble a parched land: a land of wasted opportunities that no longer cultivates disciples as it did in the past.

If actions speak louder than words, it is because they lend the weight of behavior (real assent) to belief (nominal assent).

a cultura é o software de uma sociedade, um programa para cultivar a humanidade e dar forma à sua liberdade. (p. 154)

Spend your death on living.

does belief that fails to issue in behavior count as genuine witness (and understanding) or not?

The gospel (and this is a theme to which we shall frequently return) is not only good but great news: testimony to God's great saving act in Jesus Christ, a doing "than which nothing greater can be conceived.

On the Day of Atonement, the Levites performed the central sacrificial rites of the believing community, stewarding annual ceremonies that in graphic detail pictured the evil nature of sin and the bloody nature of divinely provided atonement for sin. The Day of Atonement was a visceral affair, filled with blood and fire and death and, at the pulsing core of it all, the realized hope of forgiveness through repentance. The people could be pure.