Juan C. Torres

“Faith for Moltmann, we may recall, is not something we must have or exercise in order to be saved. It is not the transition from damnation to salvation; it is the way in which we experience the vital, eschatological “turning point” of history.”
― Nicholas Ansell, The Annihilation of Hell: Universal Salvation and the Redemption of Time in the Eschatology of Jürgen Moltmann

“Paul’s argument is primarily an argument about theodicy, not about soteriology.”
― J.R. Daniel Kirk, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God

“I repeat that dogmatics is not a thing which has fallen from Heaven to earth. And if someone were to say that it would be wonderful if there were such an absolute dogmatics fallen from Heaven, the only possible answer would be: ‘Yes, if we were angels.’ But since by God’s will we are not, it will be good for us to have just a human and earthly dogmatics. The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time. And although it is a gift of God, He has set it right amid earthly and human circumstances, and to that fact corresponds absolutely everything that happens in the Church. The Christian Church lives on earth and it lives in history, with the lofty good entrusted to it by God. In the possession and administration of this lofty good it passes on its way through history, in strength and in weakness, in faithfulness and in unfaithfulness, in obedience and in disobedience, in understanding and in misunderstanding of what is said to it.”
― Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline

“In the contemporary scene it no longer seems particularly remarkable that Jesus was a real man. This is rather the self-evident presupposition of all statements about Jesus, both within and outside the church.”
― Wolfhard Pannenberg, Jesus: God and Man