The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice
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The third component, to “do justice,” is societal and therefore also political. That means I not only realize I am to love others in my local or interpersonal sphere, but in my work in the broader world as well. This does not only entail
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“The meaning of true worship, here so simply and profoundly defined, is inexhaustible and has inspired William Temple to write: Worship is the submission of all our nature to God.
It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness;
the nourishment of mind with His truth;
the purifying of imagination by His beauty;
the opening of the heart to His love;
the surrender of will to His purpose—
and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless
emotion of which our nature is capable.[13]”
― Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness;
the nourishment of mind with His truth;
the purifying of imagination by His beauty;
the opening of the heart to His love;
the surrender of will to His purpose—
and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless
emotion of which our nature is capable.[13]”
― Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
“They become Scripture by being read anew, evolving in continuity with their original sense, tacitly corrected and given added depth and breadth of meaning. This is a process in which the word gradually unfolds its inner potentialities, already somehow present like seeds, but needing the challenge of new situations, new experiences and new sufferings, in order to open up.”
― Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
― Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
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