Wallace M. Alston Jr. > Quotes

“the mystery we have met in life overcomes us in death. The mystery that awaits us beyond death is but the antiphonal response to the mystery that anticipated our birth.”
― Wallace M. Alston Jr., The Power to Comprehend with All the Saints: The Formation and Practice of a Pastor-Theologian

“I venture to suggest that the formation of a theological existence involves six elements or occasions: an awareness of mystery, the acknowledgment of claim, a summons to understand, the freedom to commit, the experience of delight, and the desire to confess.”
― Wallace M. Alston Jr., The Power to Comprehend with All the Saints: The Formation and Practice of a Pastor-Theologian