{"id":1603,"date":"2010-06-02T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T11:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2010-06-02T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T11:15:26","slug":"history_experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"History & Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments by Michael Ramsey<\/a>, former Archbishop of Canterbury, on the place of history and experience in Biblical Studies and the working out of theology in the Christian life:<\/p>\n

“I would like to end by suggesting that holding the appeal to history and to experience in balance is really the key both to New Testament studies and to theology as a whole.  In theology, where the history of God in Christ is so central, we must appeal to experience in order to be credible: the experience of the first Christians, of Christians down through the ages, and of ourselves.  And in the area of New Testament studies, we are trying to find out what really happened.  What was said and done by the Sea of Galilee? What was said and done in the streets of Jerusalem, and on the hill of Calvary?  But we are also concerned in New Testament studies with the experience of those first witnesses to Christ the Savior that caused them to write at all — the tremendous experience that left them and us exclaiming, ‘My Lord and my God!'”
(Michael Ramsey, The Anglican Spirit<\/a><\/i>; Dale Coleman, editor; Boston, Cowley Publications, 1991, p. 93)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ramsey, in this lecture, is commenting on Charles Gore and Liberal Catholicism, in its Anglican form.<\/p>\n

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