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“Sunday worship services are too frequently no more than a communal version of such energy-boosting, performance-enhancing, or get-well morning exercises.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“Many ministers are more the church’s institutional managers than its theological guides; correspondingly, many read more management (“leadership”) books than they do works of academic theology.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“theologians do not create the “treasure” but present it ever anew; instead of “proclaiming” themselves and their theologies (see 2 Cor. 4:6), theologians proclaim, each in his or her own way, Jesus Christ, who has become for them “wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption” (1 Cor. 1:30). At their best, theologians’ visions unite with their lives in seeking to be what Paul called “the aroma of Christ,” who himself is the true life (2 Cor. 2:15).”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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