Daniel Kirk, Richard Bauckham, and Rule-Proving Exceptions

Daniel Kirk, Richard Bauckham, and Rule-Proving Exceptions

Consider this todayโ€™s โ€œquote of the day.โ€ It is from Daniel Kirk, and comes from a post about a subject of great interest to me, namely the relationship between Jewish monotheism and early Christian Christology:

Bauckham makes an interesting case for Godโ€™s exclusive sovereignty. But at the end he cites the Son of Man from the Parables of Enoch as someone other than God who exercises Godโ€™s sovereign rule over the earth. Bauckham calls this โ€œthe exception that proves the rule,โ€ but it made me wonder when we get to call something that falls outside our preferred paradigm an exception that โ€œprovesโ€ the rule rather than โ€œshows us that the rule has important exceptions that might undermine the force of the argument.โ€


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