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“Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.”
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“Cathey, Robert Andrew, God in Postliberal Perspective: Between Realism and Non-Realism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).”
― Postliberal Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed
― Postliberal Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed
“If orthodoxy is impure water, he tells us, neology is liquid manure.”
― Reading Faithfully, Volume 2: Writings from the Archives: Frei’s Theological Background
― Reading Faithfully, Volume 2: Writings from the Archives: Frei’s Theological Background
“We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.”
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“faith is awakened if at all by the presence of One in whose presence one can do no other than believe.”
― Scripture, Creed, Theology: Lectures on the History of Christian Doctrine in the First Centuries
― Scripture, Creed, Theology: Lectures on the History of Christian Doctrine in the First Centuries
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