The King in His Beauty Quotes

“The Lord’s sovereignty over Israel is not an abstract concept. He speaks to the will of Israel, summoning its people to follow him.”
― Thomas R. Schreiner, The King in His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments

“The biblical writers do not finally and fully resolve the tension between divine sovereignty and human freedom. They affirm the authenticity of human decisions, and yet they see God’s sovereign hand behind all that occurs (Prov. 16:33; 21:1).161”
― Thomas R. Schreiner, The King in His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments

“They were freed from oppression and misery in a most astonishing and unexpected way. They walked away free from one of the great superpowers of ancient history and never forgot it. When we get to the prophets, we will see that when the nation languished, the prophets promised them a new exodus. The Lord would deliver them again as he had in the past. The exodus, then, became the paradigm, a type, of the Lord’s redeeming love. The story of the exodus, then, was not merely history.”
― Thomas R. Schreiner, The King in His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments