“...motivating much of the contemporary discussion and the underlying phobia of God's particularism in choosing Israel is a fundamental assumption that universalism is inherently good, while particularism is inferior, deficient, or just plain bad...the modern preference for universalism as well as the widespread belief that universalistic texts are somehow superior to others is the result not of biblical teaching but of Enlightenment ideals, particularly in the writings of Kant.”—Chosen and Unchosen, page 34
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Hmmm...something to think about, isn't it? How much of our interpretation is based on modernist (and post-modernist), Aristotelian logic? Too much, I wager.
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