Quotes about Perspective
There is no pure "theology" to be contrasted to "feminist theology" or "Black theology," because the supposed pure theology is driven by its own encultured concerns and assumptions.
— Peter Enns
reality isn't what it used to be.
— Peter Enns
Andrew Perriman at "P.OST" (postnost.net).
— Peter Enns
Watching how the biblical writers looked at faith as trust rather than certainty helps us through our inevitable uh-oh moments from a different perspective. These moments are not proof that faith doesn't work, but only that a certain kind of faith doesn't workâone that needs correct thinking in order to survive (chapter 6).
— Peter Enns
Reading the book of Proverbs on child rearing is like paying good money for financial advice and being told after ten sessions, "Here's what I've come up with. Invest your money wisely, and you will be set for retirement." I was hoping for stock tips.
— Peter Enns
Faith describes our whole way of looking at life and how we act on that.
— Peter Enns
We reimagine God in ways that account for and make sense of our experience.
— Peter Enns
Over the years I've grown more and more convinced that "storytelling" is a better way of understanding what the Bible is doing with the past than "history writing.
— Peter Enns
What could be more normal than for different people, living at different times, in different places, who wrote about the past for different reasons and to different audiences, to produce different versions on the past? Nothing. And that's what we see in the Bible.
— Peter Enns
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job all agree: the Bible doesn't capture a freeze-frame of God and bind him to it. If we get on board with this idea, some other things the Bible says about God will make more sense.
— Peter Enns
Wherever biblical writers talk about the past, we should expect them to be shaping the past as well.
— Peter Enns
The Bible is not, never has been, and never will be the center of the Christian faith.
— Peter Enns