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“Vatican II, however, moved beyond behavior modification to motivation and inspiration, and for that reason conscience, a subject that like holiness was never mentioned in previous councils, emerged as an important theme at Vatican II.”
― When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II
― When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II
“In general, Matthew, Mark, and Luke—unlike John—follow the same order of events in narrating Jesus’ public ministry: All three begin with his baptism in the Jordan River, followed by descriptions of his tours through the villages of rural Galilee, where he heals the sick, expels demons, teaches the crowds, and debates issues of Torah observance with opponents. In all three, Jesus makes only one trip to Jerusalem (John reports many visits there), where he is arrested, condemned, and crucified. Because they present Jesus’ story from essentially the same viewpoint, they are called the Synoptic Gospels: They can be “seen together” and the contents compared.”
― The New Testament: A Student's Introduction
― The New Testament: A Student's Introduction
“To shame our sins He blushed in blood;
He closed His eyes to show us God;
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show”
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He closed His eyes to show us God;
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show”
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“Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension, on Good Friday, God climbed down to us, became one with us. The story of divine condescension begins on Christmas and ends on Good Friday. We thought, if there is to be business between us and God, we must somehow get up to God. Then God came down, down to the level of the cross, all the way down to the depths of hell. He who knew not sin took on our sin so that we might be free of it. God still stoops, in your life and mine, condescends. “Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” he asked his disciples, before his way up Golgotha. Our answer is an obvious, “No!” His cup is not only the cup of crucifixion and death, it is the bloody, bloody cup that one must drink if one is going to get mixed up in us. Any God who would wander into the human condition, any God who has this thirst to pursue us, had better not be too put off by pain, for that's the way we tend to treat our saviors. Any God who tries to love us had better be ready to die for it. As Chesterton writes, “Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate … Real love has always ended in bloodshed.”
― Thank God It's Friday: Encountering the Seven Last Words from the Cross
― Thank God It's Friday: Encountering the Seven Last Words from the Cross
“While it is totally impossible for Whites to know the pressure of being Black in a world in which Whites define normality—and based on that definition, Blacks are abnormal in all things and in all ways—it is critical that Whites see Black suffering and pain as reality before Whites can enter into their pain.”
― Lent of Liberation: Confronting the Legacy of American Slavery
― Lent of Liberation: Confronting the Legacy of American Slavery
Wesleyan/Anglican
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This group is for those who identify as Wesleyan in theology and who embrace a Wesleyan/Anglican view of liturgy and the sacraments.
The RIOT Book Club
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Check out books that The RIOT thinks you should read. Obadiah and Nikki host the RIOT on RadioU. Check out more through riot.radiou.com. You can als ...more
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Hi! We're so happy you're here! At the library, we often find ourselves wanting to talk about our current reads with no one else to share them with! U ...more
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