God the Father "has been
regularly and ritually confessed, but his being and work as Father has been out
of the centre of concern. It is of
course true that in recent years there has been a great deal of concentration
of God. It has, however, been a mainly
apologetic concern, about the basis, possiblitity and meaning of speaking about
God at all, rather than a properly dogmatic discussion with in the Christian
family on the basis of shared faith about he nature and character of the God
who in Christ has revealed himself to his people as Father, as well as Son and
spirit. The question about God that
people have been asking has been whether he exists rather than who he is.
Thomas Smail
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