Gallup polls of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s indicate that 98% of Americans believed in God during these decades.
“the main stimulus for the renewal of Christianity will come from the bottom and from the edge, from sectors of the Christian world that are on the margins.”22”
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
“Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything to ever prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ
“These are classic insiders—the fussy traditionalists who operate close to the center and seldom break with convention. In such traditionalistic organizations, intelligence and decision making tend to be drawn out from the reservoir of inherited wisdom. These inherited ideas are seen to be inviolable, even sacrosanct.”
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
“The first apostles of Christ were in the eyes of the world “unlearned and ignorant” men: it was not until the Church had endured a persecution and had grown largely in numbers that Christ called a learned man to be His apostle.31”
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
― The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
“Abstract theology, sacramentalism whose standard was quantity not quality and over-refined piety. The guidance provided by clergy to the flock is being confined to a little artificial world of ritualism, of religious practices and pious extravaganzas, which is completely cut off from the true current of reality.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Cosmic Christ
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