Parallel Mix
The main point is that Second Temple Jews assumed that heaven and earth were intended to overlap and did in fact overlap in certain contexts. Our modern assumption of a split world does not mean that we understand cosmology and they didn’t—much the same way as, just because we’ve invented mechanical clocks, we mustn’t assume that we understand time and the ancients didn’t. The modernist protests are trying to distract our gaze from the pink nakedness of the Enlightenment’s Emperor, strutting down the street.
-History and Eschatology Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology, N. T. Wright
Parallel Mix
The main point is that Second Temple Jews assumed that heaven and earth were intended to overlap and did in fact overlap in certain contexts. Our modern assumption of a split world does not mean that we understand cosmology and they didn’t—much the same way as, just because we’ve invented mechanical clocks, we mustn’t assume that we understand time and the ancients didn’t. The modernist protests are trying to distract our gaze from the pink nakedness of the Enlightenment’s Emperor, strutting down the street.
-History and Eschatology Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology, N. T. Wright