Keith L. Johnson > Quotes

“While sin is sometimes thought of today as the breaking of a rule, these metaphors emphasize that it is the breaking of a relationship, an act of treachery against the Lord, the faithful covenant king and father and husband.”
― Keith L. Johnson, T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Sin

“Sin is a master that we empower by obeying and it will not be satisfied until we are completely enslaved (‘it desires to have you’).”
― Keith L. Johnson, T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Sin

“Note that Christ does not elevate or fulfill our preexisting capacities but completely resets them. We are dissolved and then established; we are stopped and then set in motion; we wait and then hurry. Throughout the book, Barth relates this sense of movement to our justification: to be justified is to break with the known realm of creation and to move into that which is unknown and not yet realized. His point is that Christ’s resurrection does not reveal the end of created history as much as it inaugurates the beginning of its future. And it is this future in Christ that determines the shape of our lives in the present.”
― Keith L. Johnson, The Essential Karl Barth: A Reader and Commentary

“Sin names disobedient and unrighteous moral actions, while also referring to human distrust and resistance to and rejection of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ.”
― Keith L. Johnson, T&T Clark Companion to the Doctrine of Sin