The Controlling Idea is the purest form of a story’s meaning, the how and why of change, the vision of life the audience members carry away into their lives.
“To exaggerate a bit: academic theology today is composed of specialists in an unrespected discipline who write for fellow specialists about topics that interest hardly anyone else.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“requires going beyond the controversies that occasioned the letters to identify claims undergirding Paul’s theology that are so fundamental either for Paul or for both Paul and his audience that they are assumed and therefore referenced merely obliquely and relatively rarely.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“如果你對任何一種說法沒興趣,就不要管它,繼續找你有興趣的表達方式。而且,無論如何,千萬不要因為其他人用了不同的方式,就跟他們吵起來。”
― 我如何思考基督教: 認識魯益師返璞歸真的信仰(Mere Christianity)
― 我如何思考基督教: 認識魯益師返璞歸真的信仰(Mere Christianity)
“Creeping meaninglessness is a private cost of making the nature of the flourishing life a mere matter of taste.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique; and both, in the practice of this technique,”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
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