Amy

“Indeed, it is amazing that a religion was founded on the experience of utter shame, of a god that dies the death of a condemned criminal.”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use And Abuse Of The Cross

“The kingdom is nearby, adjacent to our own reality, present, yet veiled in the boundaries we avoid, and in the margins we protect ourselves from. So there is no riddle. The eschatological reality is here, yet we feel the urge to evade it, and the lure to ignore it.”
― Vitor Westhelle

“Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God's embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross

“Jesus suffered because he named the cause of suffering, the law that kills”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross