This project proposes, however, that this “Copernican” stereotype is problematic; that in fact humans are cosmically significant in some clear and precise ways that are visible to both theology and the natural sciences. While the former
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“So in a limited sense, the conversation partners were able to say that we are all worshiping the same God, but in terms of a general consensus that was as far as it could go, because “the image of God is too closely linked with the identity of each of the religions.” 167 Nevertheless, common ground was found along the way. Thus, after “a number of dialogues, John B. Taylor summed up the common features: common creatureliness before God, common responsibility before God’s judgment, the human being as God’s representative and servant, [and] the struggle for a more just, better world.” 168 To these could be added the mutual affirmation of humanity’s need for divine revelatory guidance as well as a belief in our God-given dignity and inherently moral nature. And both see Jesus as a holy man and prophet.”
― Contemporary Muslim and Christian Responses to Religious Plurality: Wolfhart Pannenberg in Dialogue with Abdulaziz Sachedina
― Contemporary Muslim and Christian Responses to Religious Plurality: Wolfhart Pannenberg in Dialogue with Abdulaziz Sachedina
“God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with the desire that people know of them. Those who work for God with purest love not only care nothing about whether others see their works, but do not even seek that God himself know of them. Such persons would not cease to render God the same services, with the same joy and purity of love, even if God were never to know of these.”
― The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (includes The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, The Spiritual Canticle, The Living Flame of Love, Letters, and The Minor Works) [Revised Edition]
― The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (includes The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, The Spiritual Canticle, The Living Flame of Love, Letters, and The Minor Works) [Revised Edition]
“I am joining in the process of purging layers of dross from modern Western rationality, a process that in elite philosophical circles has led to the “theological turn.” I argue that this process is giving birth to a restored, spiritually attuned rationality, an awakened rationality that facilitates the unfolding of a philosophical spirituality.”
― A Reasonable Belief: Why God and Faith Make Sense
― A Reasonable Belief: Why God and Faith Make Sense
“All reasoning presumes premises or intuitions or ultimate convictions that cannot be proved by any foundations or facts more basic than themselves, and hence there are irreducible convictions present wherever one attempts to apply logic to experience. One always operates within boundaries established by one’s first principles, and asks only the questions that those principles permit.”
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
“A simple church is a congregation designed around a straightforward and strategic process that moves people through the stages of spiritual growth.”
― Simple Church
― Simple Church
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