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One thing that the New Testament, the Apostles’ Creed and the general teaching of the Christian churches does not allow you to hold is that Christ was a great moral teacher, a social worker or a political revolutionary, but not divine and
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“God’, by definition, cannot be an extra item in the universe (a very big one) to be known, and so controlled, by human intellect, will, or imagination. God is, rather, that without which there would be nothing at all; God is the source and sustainer of all being, and, as such, the dizzying mystery encountered in the act of contemplation as precisely the ‘blanking’ of the human ambition to knowledge, control, and mastery. To know God is unlike any other knowledge; indeed, it is more truly to be known, and so transformed.”
― God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity'
― God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity'
“As the family weakens, our welfare and correctional bureaucracies grow.”
― What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense
― What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense
“time and again, we opt for comfort over truth. The tendency to sacrifice truth for comfort seems practically hardwired into our psyches. In saying this, I need look no further than my own past to see how often I sacrificed truth on the altar of my own comfort.”
― Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews
― Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews
“Thus, again, marriage is comprehensive in some basic ways, not in every sense. But the same holds of most revisionists' master principle: a spouse cannot be your "number one partner" in every activity, or your "soul-mate" in every domain.”
― What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense
― What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense
“gender theory has rightly drawn attention to the centrality of questions of desire, but it becomes narcissistic and inward-looking if it fails to confront the wider and continuing problems of universal ‘justice’ and ‘rights’ for women, worldwide. A classic form of liberal feminism or feminist theology, in contrast, correctly keeps up the ongoing battle on behalf of oppressed and subjugated women, but has difficulties in resisting the dangers of a flat or idolatrous imposition of its own Western agendas, or – more personally – the traps of unresolved personal resentment and hatred. In both cases, as we now see, there are profound spiritual problems to be confronted: the necessary theological repair involves nothing less than an expansion of spiritual consciousness. Such a way invites us beyond the false binary choices we have here discussed.”
― God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity'
― God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity'
Peter’s 2025 Year in Books
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