Creation Regained Quotes

“For Christians, this renewing orientation is particularly important, since severe social oppression and injustice can easily seduce them into identifying the whole social order ("the Establishment," the "status quo," or "the system") with the "world" in its religiously negative sense. When this fatal identification is made, Christians tend to withdraw from all participation in societal renewal.
Under the guise of keeping itself from the "world," the body of Christ then in effect allows the powers of secularization and distortion to dominate the greater part of its life. This is not so much an avoidance of evil as a neglect of duty.”
― Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview

“judgement has been postponed so that the people of God might witness to God's kingdom and all might repent and enter the kingdom of
God.”
― Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview

“When we read Christ's words "my kingdom is not of this world," many of us are inclined to understand it as an argument against Christian involvement in politics, for example. Instead, Jesus was saying that his kingship does non arise out of (Greek: ek) the perverted earth but derives from heaven.”
― Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview

“Christians should actively engage in efforts to make every societal institution assume its own responsibility, warding off the interference of others. That, too, is participation in the restoration of creation and the coming of the kingdom of God.”
― Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview

“What we have called the "law" of creation, therefore, is
both compelling (laws of nature) and appealing (norms), and the range of its validity can be both sweeping (general) and individualized (particular).”
― Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview