Fallen Quotes

“It discloses that faithlessness begets every category of sin.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Fallen: A Theology of Sin

“Sin is so serious and so pervasive in the world that God’s redemptive work is the only antidote for it.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Fallen: A Theology of Sin

“tolerance has become more important than truth, morality, or any widely held value system.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Fallen: A Theology of Sin

“tolerance has been elevated to the highest spot in the moral echelon.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Fallen: A Theology of Sin

“The deep cultural animus against the category of sin means that many preachers much prefer to talk about weaknesses, mistakes, tragedies, failures, inconsistencies, hurts, disappointment, blindness—anything but sin.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Fallen: A Theology of Sin

“God’s love for the world is to be admired not because the world is so big but because the world is so bad.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Fallen: A Theology of Sin

“In short, if we do not comprehend the massive role that sin plays in the Bible and therefore in biblically faithful Christianity, we shall misread the Bible.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Fallen: A Theology of Sin

“any society, no matter how tolerant, draws limits somewhere.10 In much of the Western world at the moment, however, there is very little culture-wide consensus on right and wrong, good and evil, holiness and sin, while tolerance has been elevated to the highest spot in the moral echelon. It’s not that we have self-consciously taken that step; rather, for reasons I’ve tried to outline elsewhere, tolerance has become more important than truth, morality, or any widely held value system. Tolerance becomes the supreme good, the supreme god in the culture’s pantheon, in a sphere of existence that often argues by merest clichés11 and that has very few other widely agreed desiderata. The complicating irony is that those who hold tenaciously to the supreme virtue of this new tolerance are by and large extremely intolerant of those who do not agree with them.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Fallen: A Theology of Sin