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If Jesus called the people of his day to love and be kind to an army that literally could kill them, how much more should we have a loving attitude toward people today?
“God’s creative act, as well as created reality’s existing, and human action and knowing, all have about them the structure of pledge or promise—the one initiates, the other responds. Everything created is, in its very existence, covenant response.”
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
“If the ship of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who sleeps in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.”
― The Practice of the Presence of God In Modern English
― The Practice of the Presence of God In Modern English
“So every society, be it religious or secular, totalitarian or multicultural, urban or agricultural, will be organized according to many overlapping figures that cohere into a dominant plausibility structure: small- and large-scale pictures and performances of truth woven into the fabric of the daily assumptions, rituals, actions, and choices of the people who live in that society and acting as a powerful catechesis into a particular way of viewing the world.”
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
“Just as all life begins with the gratuity of the unnecessary creation, all new life begins with the gratuity of Christ’s voluntary self-giving on the cross. Both creation and new creation are justified not by necessity but by love: nowhere in the Bible does it say that God so calculated profit and loss that he gave his only Son. The cross is not adequately explained by all that came before it, just as the creation of the universe is not adequately explained by all that comes after it. Both events are grounded in God’s freely given love.”
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
“Acts of faithful remembrance reach across the centuries without collapsing them. For example, the last supper is folded on top of the Passover feast, establishing a proximity across the centuries and retroactively reinterpreting the Passover meal itself as the foreshadowing of Christ’s death. Similarly, Psalm 22 is folded into Jesus’s experience and interpretation of the cross as if it had been written for that very moment—which, in fact, it had. In the pages of the Bible and in the Christian experience of time, promise and fulfilment kiss.”
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
― Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
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