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MacDonald's Unspoken Sermons builds a picture of a simple, childlike faith revolving directly around the gospels. He eschews the common penal substitution model, and many have written that he here favors the Christus Victor theology. Though there are
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therefore I am not responsible for its misdeeds.. Indeed, but we are responsible for our own misdeeds. And the misdeeds of our rulers become our own, if we, knowing that they are misdeeds, assist in carrying, them out.
“Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralysing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.”
― Strength to Love
― Strength to Love
“On the parable of the Good Samaritan: "I imagine that the first question the priest and Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But by the very nature of his concern, the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”
― Strength to Love
― Strength to Love
“Theory is important to those of us who are struggling to transform society because it offers distilled experience so we don't have to repeat mistakes.
A scientific materialist view of theory and history gives working and oppressed peoples a roadmap to find the path toward liberation.”
― Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
A scientific materialist view of theory and history gives working and oppressed peoples a roadmap to find the path toward liberation.”
― Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
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