Fred Smith
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“by insisting that the created order carries its own truth, its own goodness, and its own beauty, modernity has made the created order into an idol.22”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“Defining theology as “the study of God” confuses this relationship. We are unable to study God directly as an object of inquiry. But we can study, reflect on, and dialogue about what God reveals to us.”
― A Practical Primer on Theological Method: Table Manners for Discussing God, His Works, and His Ways
― A Practical Primer on Theological Method: Table Manners for Discussing God, His Works, and His Ways
“only theology supports an ultimate coherency that can embrace equally the true, the tentative, and the flawed, as reality itself embraces them—”
― What Are We Doing Here?
― What Are We Doing Here?
“No one, it seems to me, who has fully grasped the Crucifixion can ever again take seriously any expression or instrument of worldly power, however venerable, glittering, or seemingly formidable. MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
― The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“As a last word and as my bequest, let me call to you in Huguenot style: ‘Résistez!’ Discipleship of the Crucified leads necessarily to resistance to idolatry on every front. This resistance is and must be the most important mark of Christian freedom.”
― Oneself in Another: Participation and Personhood in Pauline Theology
― Oneself in Another: Participation and Personhood in Pauline Theology
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