Divine Self-Investment Quotes

“When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology

“The task for Peter, and for those of us seized and riddled by the Christ, is not to get Jesus’ title correct, as if faith amounts to proper labeling. No, the task of the disciple is to understand the content of the confession and then begin the journey to inhabit that same mind that was in Christ Jesus.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology

“Without the faithfulness of Abraham and Sarah, the Exodus from Egypt, the voice of the Prophets, and so on, Jesus could not have been the Christ. Jesus was born into a community that was graced with this inheritance and he is the fruit of it.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology

“Interpretations of the cross in which the ministry of Jesus is unnecessary are particularly problematic and have been historically influential as the church came to give more politically ambivalent and individualistic interpretations.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology

“God is not simply bound exclusively to the cross of Christ, but God is bound, as the God of love, to crosses littered across history.”
― Tripp Fuller, Divine Self-Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Christology