Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black Holes, Love, and a Journey In and Out of Calvinism

by Austin Fischer

The problem with theology is that it’s humans doing it.

all our prevailing images and understandings of God must crumble in the earthquake of Jesus’s self-disclosure

the crucified Jesus is both the foundation and criticism of all Christian theology.

We do not get to speak of love abstractly, as some fluffy human ideal of goodwill. We speak of love in the concrete realism of divinity condescending to crucifixion on a wooden stake. We speak of love when we gaze in horror and wonder at the crown of thorns on the brow of the Creator.

When God looks at us he does not see creatures he should love. He sees creatures that he wants and thus chooses to love despite the fact he should not.

the good news of the gospel is not that we are good, but that we are loved:

I don’t think a God who takes on flesh to be murdered by his creatures is too worried about being taken advantage of,

N. T. Wright notes, “For too long we have read Scripture with nineteenth-century eyes and sixteenth-century questions. It’s time to get back to reading with first-century eyes and twenty-first-century questions.”