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I will argue that John has a particular missional structure and theme that manifest its understanding of the missio Dei—the mission of God—and that its missional spirituality is a spirituality of participation in the very life and
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“My oft-made claim, a claim that many find offensive, that the first task of the church is not to make the world just but to make the world the world, is rightly understood only in light of these eschatological convictions.”
― Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life
― Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life
“This is to say that while voting and lobbying and marching and sheltering are all political, more basically political is the gathered body of Christ.”
― Minding the Web: Making Theological Connections
― Minding the Web: Making Theological Connections
“The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.”
― The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics
― The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics
“As long as it is assumed that war is always an available option, we will not be forced to imagine any alternative to war.”
― Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
― Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
“At its inception and in its best moments, the church as Christ’s body offered the world communion where there was previously animosity, ploughshares and pruning hooks from swords and spears, the peaceable kingdom come alive. The church not only welcomes the stranger, but is the stranger, constituted as she is entirely by migrants, herself a migrant through the world.”
― Minding the Web: Making Theological Connections
― Minding the Web: Making Theological Connections
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