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    Revelation

    I attended my first lecture as a theological student last night in the course Introduction to Theology . I’m going to try and resist the urge to bore you with a bunch of facts and intellectually mind tangling questions but I thought I’d try and distil at least one relevent point or idea from each lecture. Fr Johnathan Bright used to call this the “take home value”.

    So last night we talked about this thing called revelation and how it feeds into our thinking about God. We talked about various ways God reveals himself to humanity – through appearances, inner experiences, doctrine and history. We talked about how these things relate to the revelation of God through Jesus.

    I felt reassured discussing this stuff because I’m so hung up on it all the time – looking for a revelation of God that fits into my sense of reason. It was good to realise that you don’t have to just look at the crazy stuff – bleeding statues, miracle healings etc… We have a historical record of God’s revelation to us, not the least of which is Jesus Christ himself. It was also good to get some perspective by thinking about how in the greater scheme of history, the kind of rational thinking we have today is just a small slice. Today everything might have to fit into the scientific model of rational thought – tommorrow, individual experience might matter again – who knows.

    One last thing. Our lecturer Geoff Thompson is a bit of a trickster – be careful when he puts random quotes up on the projector and asks you what you think of them because it might just be something unexpected like a verse from the Qu`ran ! (2:2-5 to be exact)

    For another take on revelation, see the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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    Posted: February 23rd, 2006 under Theology.
    Comments: 1

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    Comment from James the cat
    Time: 23/2/2006, 10:30 am

    The question of revelation is at the heart of a great many theological disputes through the ages. Thus the dispute between protestant reformers and the Roman Church, and the current tension between Anglicans in Sydney and those in the rest of the world. Thus the current troubles in the Anglican church today, with the tension surrounding the acceptability or otherwise of homosexuality, can be framed fundamentally as an issue of revelation. How does God communicate his will to us? Purely through scripture? Through individual conscience? Through the inherited tradition of the Church? Through the ordained and consecrated leaders of the church? through the discernement of the whole people? Fundamentally, it is our attitude to revelation that will determine our Christian journey.

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