Cross and Cosmos Quotes

“Death is a difficulty, but it is not a punishment for the wrongdoings of our first parents; life is difficult, but it is not a trial through which we must pass to earn an eternal reward. Mortality is not a wounding disability but the enabling condition that lends life its intensity, tenderness, poignancy, and beauty, let us say its wounded glory, the difficult glory, that has tasted the bitter truth.”
― John D. Caputo, Cross and Cosmos: A Theology of Difficult Glory

“The cross is not magic. It does not magically dispel the course of evil, or stop global warming, or alter the laws of thermodynamics. The cross is an event in which the difficulty is not dispelled but disclosed, not extinguished but exposed, not crossed out but made visible.”
― John D. Caputo, Cross and Cosmos: A Theology of Difficult Glory

“But if the good news is that the world has been reconciled to God by the cross, the bad news is the world seems not to have noticed.”
― John D. Caputo, Cross and Cosmos: A Theology of Difficult Glory