Christopher W. Morgan > Quotes

“The Creator is not dependent on His creation in achieving His purposes.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Faith Comes by Hearing: A Response to Inclusivism

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

“Church is subordinate to kingdom; kingdom is not simply a synonym for church.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, The Kingdom of God

“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

“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

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

“N. T. Wright aptly notes, “But Rome is not the enemy; it is the Satan and his hordes, who are deceiving Israel into thinking that Rome is the real enemy, so that she (Israel) will not notice the reality.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, The Kingdom of God

“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

“when man fell he did not lose his will but the health of his will.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Faith Comes by Hearing: A Response to Inclusivism

“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

“To love another properly means to want the liberation of the image of God in the other’s whole person.”
― Christopher W. Morgan, The Kingdom of God

“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

“Rahab,”
― Christopher W. Morgan, Christian Theology: The Biblical Story and Our Faith