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“For however much the Gateses might give away, their daily life remains, by and large, unaffected. They remain, in spite of this enormous donation, one of the wealthiest couples in the world. Mother Teresa, on the other hand, gave up everything to serve the poorest of the poor. Pinker”
― Charity
― Charity
“Our own conceptions of creation are far more scientific in outlook, and we expect creation stories merely to disclose the rudiments of nature’s origins. Not so the ancients. They told creation stories with the primary purpose of providing a cosmic foundation for the meaning and purpose of human life.”
― Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament: Theology in the Service of Biblical Exegesis
― Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament: Theology in the Service of Biblical Exegesis
“And this is the key to the passion: like the brothers of Joseph, we reject the Elect One of Israel, but the Elect One does not reject us. And strikingly, it is precisely the culpability of the brothers or the disciples that allows them to experience and ponder the miracle of their forgiveness. As Robert Jenson so aptly puts it: “To the question ‘Who crucified Jesus?’ only the church is able to say, ‘We did.’ The [human] race in general must, in justice, say, ‘We were not there,’ and just so go its way.”30”
― Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament: Theology in the Service of Biblical Exegesis
― Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament: Theology in the Service of Biblical Exegesis
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