Matthew Maw

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

Lack of relation to God is what is meant by the theological concept of the nothingness which, under the illusory appearance of being, is not more but less than the nihil negativum… from which in the beginning God created all things. - Jüngel, TWAPAA

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

as to articulate some contrasts which will bring into relief the particular perfection which God is. Infinity is not indefiniteness or indistinctness of being…. God is not unspecific: he is this one. - Webster, Confesing God /2

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

whatever is said by way of negation is only an interim concept, something said on the way to a positive statement of a God’s immensity, and it’s function is therefore not so much to deliver a substantive doctrine of what God is not, /1

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

The good chooses me; it annexes my projects to itself; it binds me, and thereby sets me free. - Webster, God and Conscience

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

@jamesrwoodtheo Is this from time and the word?

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

God's relationship to Scripture is a microcosm of theology - Kevin J. Vanhoozer

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

In the entirety of his person and work, this Christ is a revelation of God's love. - Bavinck, RD, 3:368

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

@Jon_Cleland A lovely footnote!

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

@Jon_Cleland @heritagecs If only I could get my hands on Muller!

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. - Gal 3:22

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

@wesleyhill Congratulations and welcome to Wycliffe!

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

Under the Word, which means Holy Scripture, the Church must and can live, whereas beyond or beside the Word it can only die. - Barth, CD I/2

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

@BradKlassen4 Thank you!

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

We must submit to bondage to Scripture. We must submit to be content with it. We must do so no less because man is in the very presence of God. - Barth, CD I/2, §16.1

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

@AndrewDNoble I think I'm down to two or three vivid memories of my wedding I'm afraid I'll misremember if I look at too many photos. It may just be a deficiency in my memory though! haha

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

"God is principle of being and the first cause of theology… [and] the principle of knowing is God’s Word" Johann Gerhard, On the Nature of Theology

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

In the Son, the Father is from all eternity the Father of his children; the Son is eternally their their guarantor and mediator; the Holy Spirit is eternally their Comforter. - Bavinck, RD 3

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

“The essential being of language is Saying as Showing. Its showing character is not based on signs of any kind; rather, all signs arise from a showing within whose realm and for whose purpose they can be signs.”

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

Lot from 2025: “The attempt to remove ourselves from the divine agency in, with, and under this text as an instrument of God’s gracious judgement, salvation, guidance, and comfort is… an act of denial or resistance; even defiance.”

[Matthew Maw @MawMatthew]

“I believe… God moved upon holy men of old by His Spirit and caused them to write His own thoughts and utterances to the children of men.”