Kyle Worley is joined by Ronni Kurtz to answer the question; what does incomprehensibility mean and is God incomprehensible?
Questions Covered in This Episode:
- What does incomprehensibility mean?
- Is God incomprehensible?
- How would you encourage someone who is trying to comprehend who God is?
Helpful Definitions:
- Immutable: God can’t change.
- Incomprehensibility: There is an intellectual limitation by virtue of our being creatures that will not allow us to wrap our mind fully around God as He is as a Creator.
- Comprehend: To surround.
- Divine Accommodation: God reveals himself to us in creaturely language.
Guest Bio:
Ronni Kurtz serves as an Assistant Professor of Theology at Cedarville University.
He is the author of Fruitful Theology: How the Life of the Mind Leads to the Life of the Soul; Proclaiming the Triune God: The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Life of the Church; and Light Unapproachable: Divine Incomprehensibility and the Task of Theology.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- Exodus 33
- “Light Unapproachable: Divine Incomprehensibility and the Task of Theology” by Ronni Kurtz
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