Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN
Monday, May 05, 2025
It's the Trinity!
Understanding the cross and resurrection as a single event, undertaken from within the Trinity itself, is of utmost importance and will continue to inform the discussion throughout. The scandalous “word of the cross” is not a human word. It is the Spirit—empowered presence of God in the preaching of the crucified One. The Holy Spirit, so central to New Testament writings as diverse as those of Paul, John, and the author of Acts, inhabits the message and empowers the speaker, so that the proclamation of God’s act in Christ is the new occasion of creation, issuing from the Trinitarian power of the originating Word itself.—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, 19 (emphasis original)
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