{"id":725,"date":"2009-01-08T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2009-01-08T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:36:26","slug":"gods-joust-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/01\/08\/gods-joust-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"God's Joust of History"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be sure, God’s plan and our history are not identical.\u00a0 God’s plan consists of much more than what God chooses to reveal to us or what we are able to discern of it.\u00a0 Much of what we see appears to be the work of a concealed God, even at times a seemingly capricious God.\u00a0 In Martin Luther’s (1483-1546) colorful image, history is ‘God’s mummery and mystery,’ ‘God’s joust and tourney.’\u00a0 History is ‘God’s theatre,’ in which the play cannot be fully understood until it ends and until we exit.\u00a0 To equate one act or actor, one speech or text, with the divine play itself is to cast a partial and premature jugment.\u00a0 To insist on one interpretation of the play before it ends is to presume the power of eternal discernment.\u00a0 To judge the play on the basis of a few episodes is to insult the genius of the divine playwright.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— John Witte, Jr., God’s Joust, God’s Justice:\u00a0 Law and Religion in the Western Tradition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be sure, God’s plan and our history are not identical.\u00a0 God’s plan consists of much more than what God chooses to reveal to us or what we are able to discern of it.\u00a0 Much of what we see appears to be the work of a concealed God, even at times a seemingly capricious God.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,21,5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-theology","category-justice","category-law-and-policy","category-religious-legal-theory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-bH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}