有次出差晚上無聊,獨自嘗試美國酒吧文化。坐上吧檯不到三分鐘,旁邊的人就問我打哪兒來──肩貼著肩坐在一起不說話才奇怪。不到幾分鐘我就知道他來自哪裡、做什麼行業、有什麼嗜好。美國人會講話就是這樣練出來的。
“The problem with Luther’s account of the Christian faith and of theology is that he distinguishes too sharply between the “inner person” and the “outer person”
― 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
“To change the world, we need an “I have a dream” speech, not an “I have a complaint” speech.”
― 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
“What is needed is a biblically rooted,30 patristically guided,31 ecclesially located, and publicly engaged theology, done in critical conversation with the sciences and the various disciplines of the humanities, at the center of which is the question of the flourishing life.”
― 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
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