"Hope and love belong together. Only those who hope with and for others can also love them ... Love's imagination, its creative impulse, lives on hope"
Pannenberg, W. Systematic theology, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 3:182
posted by Chris Tilling @ 12:35 AM
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I am New Testament Tutor for St Mellitus College and St Paul's Theological Centre, London. In my postgraduate research (under the supervision of Max Turner) I’m working on a thesis that concerns the christological significance of the language Paul used to describe the relationship between risen Lord and believer. My blog, Chrisendom, is primarily occupied with biblical and theological themes – especially those Apostle Paul shaped, but I try as best as I can to squeeze in a decent amount of inappropriate baloney on the way. For more about me, click here for my interview with biblioblogs' Jim West.
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I like this very much. It reminds me of something I read recently for a class, but I'm too lazy to look it up right now.
Sounds like Pannenberg is commenting on St. Paul's Hymn of Love (1 Cor 13). "[True-love] covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. True-love never fails. [...] But these three shall be remaining: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Incidentally, where does Pannenberg stand on the Calv/Arm/Kath triangle? 'cause that quote sure sounds kath. {g} (I know I've said as much within, and from, kath theology.)
JRP
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