“The gospel is not a summary of “the necessary truths of reason”; rather, it is a revelation that shatters and reshapes human reason in light of God’s foolishness. The Word is known in contingent human form, and only there. That is the scandal of the gospel.”
― The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
― The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
“Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway.”
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“I have suggested that the unity-within-diversity of the New Testament witnesses can best be grasped with the aid of three focal images: community, cross, and new creation. We can encapsulate the theological implications of these images for the church in a single complex narrative summary: the New Testament calls the covenant community of God’s people into participation in the cross of Christ in such a way that the death and resurrection of Jesus becomes a paradigm for their common life as harbingers of God’s new creation.”
― The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
― The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
“Anyone who is not a continual student of Jesus, and who nevertheless reads the great promises of the Bible as if they were for him or her, is like someone trying to cash a check on another person’s account. At best, it succeeds only sporadically.”
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“All previous ages have sweated and been crucified in an attempt to realize what is really the right life, what was really the good man. A definite part of the modern world has come beyond question to the conclusion that there is no answer to these questions, that the most that we can do is to set up a few notice-boards at places of obvious danger, to warn men, for instance, against drinking themselves to death, or ignoring the mere existence of their neighbours.”
― The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]
― The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]
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