Excerpt From The Interview

“Above all else it’s through His Word that God gives Himself to us again and again and again. And you know, that cuts through other dichotomies that you find in the contemporary church. So if you come out of the Reformed tradition like I do, you would think God never wants to know us personally. He just wants to fill our heads with knowledge about Him. However, if you come from the more charismatic, experiential side of the church, you would think God just wants to smother us in experiences and never for us to learn anything about Him. 

And the answer is that God wants to give Himself to us. You find the most powerful metaphors for this in the New Testament and John’s gospel where, you know, the Father and the Son will come and set up house with you. My sense is that if the Father and the Son by the Spirit were to move into our house, we might know about it.”

About Craig Bartholomew

Craig G. Bartholomew (PhD, University of Bristol) is director of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, England. He was formerly senior research fellow at the University of Gloucestershire and the H. Evan Runner Professor of Philosophy at Redeemer University College. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Old Testament and God, the first of four volumes in his Old Testament Origins and the Question of God project. Bartholomew is also the coauthor of The Drama of Scripture, Living at the Crossroads, and Christian Philosophy.

Links Mentioned

Listening To Scripture by Craig Bartholomew

The Kirby Laing Centre

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