Wayne Larson

“Keep your eye on the intuitions, and don’t take people’s moral arguments at face value. They’re mostly post hoc constructions made up on the fly, crafted to advance one or more strategic objectives.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”
― Aeschylus

“Early in his majestic Church Dogmatics, Barth experimented with a doctrine of inspiration that allowed for a strong affirmation of scriptural fallibilism with a high doctrine of scriptural authority. The Bible, he said there, (CD I.2, section 19) was not directly identical to the Word of God, but could become it in a secondary fashion, by the agency, act, and presence of the Holy Spirit. Barth’s Christocentrism there took on a Christomorphic tone, so that Holy Scripture consisted in an altogether human text and authorship, joined to an altogether Divine Reality and Spirit. Such indirect identity gave Barth’s early doctrine of Scripture remarkable dynamism and exegetical freedom. But in practice, Barth did not distinguish so sharply and confidently between the inspired Word and the biblical letter. His fine print excurses showed a reliance upon the biblical text as both authoritative and self-authenticating, a living witness to Almighty God.”
― Katherine Sonderegger, Systematic Theology: The Doctrine of God

“God gave Israel a law that would govern just relations between people (Exodus 20); preserve rights for women, slaves, and strangers (Exodus 21); envision right social relations (Exodus 22); invite respect for aliens and strangers (Exodus 23:9); and engender respect and stewardship over the land (Exodus 23:10-13). Far from limiting freedom, it aimed to set God’s newly liberated people free to flourish.”
― Chuck DeGroat, Leaving Egypt: Finding God in the Wilderness Places