While revisting some of my research the Beginning Conversations project, I thought that it would be worth posting some of my favorite quotes. I’ll continue to post excerpts from the current draft of the book and from my current reading. Here is one of my favorite sections of Stanley Grenz’s Renewing the Center. You’ll notice that his idea of theology as a conversation within the Christian community has profoundly influenced my own thinking and the title of this project.
"I noted above that a theology that seeks to be responsive to, and to take seriously, postmodern sensitivities after the demine of foundationalism views itself as a conversation. More specifically, theological construction–the attempt to delineate what ought to be the belief-mosaic of the Christian church–may be characterized as an ongoing conversation that the participants in the faith community share as to the meaning of the cultural symbols through which Christians express their understanding of the world they inhabit. These symbols include sacred texts, language, rituals, and practices. This constructive theological conversation requires the interplay, or perichoretic dance, of three soureces of isnight" (206).
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