“Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God's embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.”
― The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
― The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross
“Can God be so powerful as to surrender all power? And the answer was yes!”
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“The kingdom is nearby, adjacent to our own reality, present, yet veiled in the boundaries we avoid, and in the margins we protect ourselves from. So there is no riddle. The eschatological reality is here, yet we feel the urge to evade it, and the lure to ignore it.”
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“Indeed, it is amazing that a religion was founded on the experience of utter shame, of a god that dies the death of a condemned criminal.”
― The Scandalous God: The Use And Abuse Of The Cross
― The Scandalous God: The Use And Abuse Of The Cross
“... the knowledge traditionally associated with the center is deeply compromised by its sheer lack of knowledge ... with regards to the margins ... [on the margins one] knows (and has been required to know) far more about the center than the center ever knows ... about the margins.”
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