Calvin's Ladder Quotes

“To safeguard the integrity of creatures, modernity has chosen the path that has led to its own destruction: that of defining "freedom" in terms of autonomy and distance from God.”
― Julie Canlis, Calvin's Ladder: A Spiritual Theology of Ascent and Ascension

“The full
theological import of xotvwv[a will only be revealed in the Pauline letters as that most intimate union of man with God and with his fellow-men accomplished through Christ that constitutes final salvation."24”
― Julie Canlis, Calvin's Ladder: A Spiritual Theology of Ascent and Ascension

“Ascent is neither the lone journey of Jesus nor the abstracted elevation of the soul, but is the future for an embodied humanity that is copresent with Jesus and his Father.”
― Julie Canlis, Calvin's Ladder: A Spiritual Theology of Ascent and Ascension