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Article: The Fire of Silence and Stillness.(Brief Article)
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- Commonweal
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- June 6, 1997
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Thompson, swimming against theological eddies, wishes to do Christology in a "non-surgical" manner, which is to say to respect the integrity of the body of Scripture. In his words: "Our approach is noninvasive in the sense that it wants to do Christology from within the movements of the Gospel texts (and of Scripture as a whole)." This noninvasive approach leads him to consider such distinctions as "high and low" Christology in a new light: no longer as an either/or, but as the creative interplay of faith and history, divinity and humanity, all belonging to the Word of God.
This approach also binds his scholarship as closely to the body of believers as to the world ...