Status Updates From Surprised by Hope: Rethinki...

“ Precisely because the resurrection has happened as an event *within our own world*, it’s implications and effects are to be felt within our own world, here, and now.”

🤣“the problem is that much theology, having lived for so long on the convenience food of an easy-going tolerance of everything, an ‘inclusivit’y with as few boundaries as McWorld, has become depressingly flabby, unable to climb even the lower slopes of social and cultural judgment let alone the steep upper reaches of that judgment of which the early Christians spoke and wrote”

Fascinating discussion on paradise, purgatory and hell. ..” once we rule out purgatory, I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should – not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with God’s joy and peace. Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God?”