- Robert W. Jenson, Systematic Theology Vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1999), 39. - Origen ( Philocalia 10.2) suggests we think of ourselves as herbalists and of
scripture as an enormous garden; we can and should use only the plants we
have the knowledge and skill to use for healing. He also holds that we may
spiritually benefi t even where we do not truly understand. - See Jeremy S. Begbie, “Beauty, Sentimentality and the Arts,” in The Beauty
of God: Theology and the Arts , ed. Daniel J. Trier, Mark Husbands, and
Roger Lundin (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2007), 45–69. - See my Sanctifying Interpretation : Vocation, Holiness, and Scripture
(Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2015), 124–141. - Steven J. Wright, Dogmatic Aesthetics: A Theology of Beauty in Dialogue
with Robert W. Jenson (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014), 102. - See Rickie D. Moore, “Altaring Hermeneutics,” Pneuma 38.2 (forthcom-
ing 2016). - George Steiner, On Diffi culty and Other Essays (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1978), 18–47. - See George Steiner, “Review of The Literary Guide to the Bible by Robert
Alter and Frank Kermode,” New Yorker (January 11, 1988), 97. - Steiner, On Diffi culty, 35.
- Steiner, On Diffi culty , 40.
- Andrey Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time (Austin: University of Texas Press,
1986), 42. - Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time , 43.
- T.F. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the
Ancient Catholic Church (London: T&T Clark, 1991), 38. - I have tried to argue this at length, and in somewhat different terms, in
Sanctifying Interpretation , 109–141. - Steiner, On Diffi culty , 35.
- Quoted in Douglas Burton-Christie, “The Luminous Word: Scripture in
the Philokalia,” in The Philokalia: Exploring the Classic Text of Orthodox
Spirituality , ed. Brock Bingaman and Bradley Nassif (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012), 73–86. - See Kyle C. Strobel, “Theology in the Gaze of the Father: Retrieving
Jonathan Edward’s Trinitarian Aesthetics,” in Advancing Trinitarian
Theology: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics , ed. Oliver Crisp and
Fred Sanders (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014), 148–170. - See Kyle C. Strobel, “The Beauty of Christ: Edwards and Balthasar on
Theological Aesthetics,” in The Ecumenical Edwards: Jonathan Edwards and
the Theologians , ed. Kyle C. Strobel (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), 91–109. - Wright, Dogmatic Aesthetics, 102.
- Jean-Luc Marion, The Crossing of the Visible (Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 2004), 61.
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