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The Book That Understands Me THE BOOK THAT UNDERSTANDS ME BY GRAHAM A. COLE Graham A. Cole is Dean of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Vice-President of Education, and Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology. He is also Vice-President of Education for Trinity International University. He is the author of four books: Engaging with the Holy Spirit: Real Questions, Practical Answers; He Who Gives Life: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; God the Peacemaker: How Atonement Brings Shalom; and The God Who Became Human: A Biblical Theology of Incarnation. He has also authored over a hundred book chapters, articles, and book reviews. He is an ordained Anglican minister, and has taught theology and philosophy of religion on three continents. The Christ on Campus Initiative exists to inspire students on college and university campuses to think wisely, act with conviction, and become more Christ-like by providing relevant and excellent evangelical resources on contemporary issues. We aim to distribute resources—prepared by top evangelical scholars, pastors, and thinkers—that are intellectually rigorous, persuasive in argument, appealing in tone, and consistent with historic evangelical Christianity. The Christ on Campus Initiative is generously supported by the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding (a ministry of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) and the MAC Foundation. This essay is Copyright © 2018 by Christ on Campus Initiative (CCI). Readers and organizations may circulate this and other CCI essays without charge. THE BOOK THAT UNDERSTANDS ME BY GRAHAM A. COLE eddings can be such fun, can’t they? And they come in all Two Stories: W shapes and sizes from huge to intimate, One French, from casual to formal. The last wedding I attended was a classic Southern one One American where the bride had eleven bridesmaids. Emile Cailliet was raised in a The setting was on a mountain and the naturalistic environment in France. feast afterwards was by a mountain In fact, he first saw a Bible at the age lake. My wife especially appreciated of 23. He had a longing though for the occasion. She is a fashion designer self-understanding. He expresses that and for a time ran her own bridal longing in powerful terms when he business. One dress she sold was to writes: “During long night watches a couple with an Armenian heritage in the foxholes [in WWI] I had in a and we were invited to the wedding strange way been longing—I must say in their Armenian Orthodox Church. it, however queer it may sound—for a What a spectacle! Robes, incense, color book that would understand me. But and pageantry. What struck me in I knew of no such book.”2 So what did particular was how the priest handled Cailliet do? He set out to construct one the Bible. It was handled with silk cloth. himself: “Now I would in secret prepare Human hands were not to touch the one for my own private use.”3 Over sacred book. What made this book so time he constructed his book made up precious to him? Personal conviction? of quotations drawn from literature and Tradition? That experience of the philosophy. In the end, however, when Armenian wedding raises for me the he read his compilation he found only question of why value this ancient book. disappointment: “It carried no strength Let’s begin our exploration of of persuasion.”4 Instead of insight he this last question by considering found emptiness. the stories of two very different Around that same time his wife people who found that transforming happened on a Protestant church, went value in the pages of this famous in and met the elderly pastor. As Cailliet book, a book that understood relates the story: “She walked to his 1 them—at least that is the claim. desk and heard herself say. Have you a Bible in French?”5 Indeed he did. And Cailliet’s wife upon his return home 3 gave him the copy of the Bible. (How What held him? How can you be she found this church is an interesting held by a book? Piper explores a number story in itself.) He vividly describes what of metaphors in answering the question: happened next: The Bible was never like a I literally grabbed the book and masterpiece hanging in a museum rushed to my study with it. I opened that I viewed this way and that. it and chanced upon the Beatitudes Rather, it was like a window. Or like [Matthew 6]: I read, and read …. I binoculars. My view of the Bible was could not find words to express my always through the Bible. So when I awe and wonder. And suddenly the say that, all along the way, my view realization dawned upon me: This was getting clearer and brighter was the Book that would understand and deeper, I mean the reality seen me! I needed it so much, yet, through it was getting clearer and unaware I had attempted to write brighter and deeper. Clearer as my own—in vain. .... I continued to the edges of things became less read deeply into the night, mostly fuzzy, and I could see how things fit from the gospels. … A decisive together rather than just smudging insight flashed through my whole into each other. Brighter as the being the following morning as I beauty and impact of the whole probed the opening chapters of the message [of the Bible] was more gospel according to John. The very and more attractive. And deeper in clue to the secret of human life was the sense of depth perspective—I disclosed right there, not stated in the suppose photographers would say foreboding language of philosophy, “depth of field.” Things stretched but in the common everyday off into eternity with breathtaking language of human circumstances.6 implications—in both directions past Cailliet went on to become a noted and future. You could sum it up with philosopher and Christian thinker. the phrase the glory of God. That’s what 7 John Piper’s story is different from I was seeing. that of Emil Cailliet. Piper was raised For Piper, it was the Bible’s vista of in a home that prized the Bible and by reality holding him and not the other parents who sought to live by it. He way around. became a theological educator and Cailliet and Piper began in very eventually an influential author, speaker different places. One started as a and pastor. Over the years his belief in naturalist and the other was raised in the Bible’s truthfulness was challenged. a Christian home environment. Both Graduate school did that, for example. came to the same place of prizing the However, he found in experience that it book that understood them. was not so much his holding on to the Bible as an authority in his life but being held by it. 4 this book helps me to see afresh, and with insight comes understanding. speak on any subject as long as no law is Such Insight broken in doing so. One Sunday, there in a Book was a preacher who was confronted by an angry atheist who shouted out that My argument is that in this book insight he did not believe in God. The preacher can be found which can transform a replied, “Tell me about this God you human life. It did mine. So what are don’t believe in. I might not believe in the insights I am talking about? What him either.” In our pluralist setting we is the understanding that captured can’t assume that when the word “God” Cailliet’s imagination and what is the is spoken we are all on the same page. vista of which John Piper speaks? Let To do so is a big mistake these days. So me put it this way: this book helps me what God am I writing about? to see afresh, and with insight comes The God I am writing about is the understanding. Moreover, this book one that the Bible presents in its pages.8 addresses a number of our needs posed I wear glasses for driving and without by the simple fact of a human existence them all is blurry. My glasses make all in all its finiteness. the difference. Color is sharper, shapes are well defined. I am not a menace on the road. John Calvin, a famous First, we see God Christian leader of the past, employed afresh the useful metaphor of the Bible I heard this story about a preacher in described as a pair of glasses. He wrote: Hyde Park, London. There is a famous Just as old and bleary-eyed men section of the Park known as Speakers’ and those with weak vision, if you Corner. Anyone can get up on a box and thrust before them a most beautiful The God I am writing about is the one that the Bible presents in its pages. 6 volume, even if they recognize it to survive. So what can nuance power? to be some sort of writing, yet can That’s where love comes into play. John scarcely construe two words, but also claims that God is love (1 John 4). He with the aid of spectacles will begin grounds this claim on the story of Jesus. to read distinctly; so Scripture, The coming of Jesus into the world and gathering up the otherwise confused his dying that we might live show us knowledge of God in our minds, what God’s love looks like. It is sacrificial. having dispersed our dullness, It removes the barrier between God and clearly shows us the true God.9 ourselves if we are willing to embrace For Calvin, the Bible was not an end in it.
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