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The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.12
“anyone trying to be a Pauline exegete while still in thrall to Luther should consider a career as a taxidermist. Heroes are to be engaged with, not stuffed and mounted and allowed to dominate the room.”
― Paul and His Recent Interpreters
― Paul and His Recent Interpreters
“The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.12”
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
“Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.”
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
“To summarize, then: the crucifixion is the touchstone of Christian authenticity, the unique feature by which everything else, including the resurrection, is given its true significance.”
― The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
― The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
“Christian faith has never — either at the start or now — been based on historical reconstructions of Jesus, even though Christian faith has always involved some historical claims concerning Jesus. Rather, Christian faith (then and now) is based on religious claims concerning the present power of Jesus. . . . Christian faith is not directed toward a human construction about the past; that would be a form of idolatry. Authentic Christian faith is a response to the living God, whom Christians declare is powerfully at work among them through the resurrected Jesus.55”
― The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
― The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
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