Oct 31, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
St. Michael 2026 Panel Discussion ST. MICHAEL'S CONFERENCE 2026 Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church 4305 Military Avenue | Detroit, MI 48210
The main claim is that at the point of nominals, you start to see a severing of divine and the creation.
Whether we want to go along with that or not, this is a claim and that very quickly leads to, and Luther's a nominalist and therefore Luther is the father of higher criticism and the whole enterprise of historicism and setting ourselves by way of his enlightenment over the text.
As if we are neutral observers, we are the ones that are actually able to see and to know what's going on and can objectively critique what's before us.
In this line of reasoning, philosophically, as to however it is, it is clear, whether it's phenomenalist or not, I don't know.
There does seem to be a shift in the Enlightenment where we no longer assume that there's any sort of connection or, as some would say, kind of a porous, the borders are porous between God and his creation, and then the Enlightenment comes and seals them off.
So that there's now, for us, no way of thinking of time other than the chronological.
and this is why it's so difficult for us, whereas prior, we don't see any great difficulty, even in Luther, with these sorts of questions.
There's some in terms of the abuse, but prior, everyone is assuming some sort of, and they have no problem saying mystical interpretation, spiritual interpretation, and the only way of bringing them back when it's constantly a call to reform is through the analogy of faith.
All that to say, fast forward to, I don't know, a dozen years ago when Charles Taylor wrote his secular age.
And he does run with a secular time, verse 8, we might say divine time, or chronology and hierology, right? So you've got the fact that there is already built into the scriptures a language that speaks of the one foot in front of the other, left, right, ears, and so forth, and a God entering in at particular points according to his will and his providential care.
And I think both of those need to be held and not setting one against the other or somehow destroying the other, but both like the incarnation together.
The main claim is that at the point of nominals, you start to see a severing of divine and the creation.
Whether we want to go along with that or not, this is a claim and that very quickly leads to, and Luther's a nominalist and therefore Luther is the father of higher criticism and the whole enterprise of historicism and setting ourselves by way of his enlightenment over the text.
As if we are neutral observers, we are the ones that are actually able to see and to know what's going on and can objectively critique what's before us.
In this line of reasoning, philosophically, as to however it is, it is clear, whether it's phenomenalist or not, I don't know.
There does seem to be a shift in the Enlightenment where we no longer assume that there's any sort of connection or, as some would say, kind of a porous, the borders are porous between God and his creation, and then the Enlightenment comes and seals them off.
So that there's now, for us, no way of thinking of time other than the chronological.
and this is why it's so difficult for us, whereas prior, we don't see any great difficulty, even in Luther, with these sorts of questions.
There's some in terms of the abuse, but prior, everyone is assuming some sort of, and they have no problem saying mystical interpretation, spiritual interpretation, and the only way of bringing them back when it's constantly a call to reform is through the analogy of faith.
All that to say, fast forward to, I don't know, a dozen years ago when Charles Taylor wrote his secular age.
And he does run with a secular time, verse 8, we might say divine time, or chronology and hierology, right? So you've got the fact that there is already built into the scriptures a language that speaks of the one foot in front of the other, left, right, ears, and so forth, and a God entering in at particular points according to his will and his providential care.
And I think both of those need to be held and not setting one against the other or somehow destroying the other, but both like the incarnation together.
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