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This is what the Gospel has been about from the start: A breaking into our time and space by God to show humanity what true humanness, as well as perfect theology, is all about. And all of it—I mean all of it—is centered on God’s liberating
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“There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.”
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“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
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“At best, the theory of substitutionary atonement has inoculated us against the true effects of the Gospel, causing us to largely “thank” Jesus instead of honestly imitating him. At worst, it led us to see God as a cold, brutal figure, who demands acts of violence before God can love his own creation”
― The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
― The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
“After the sixteenth century, when Westerners became more rational and literate, most of us stopped thinking symbolically, allegorically, or typologically. But in so doing, we lost something quite important in our spiritual, intuitive, and nonrational understanding of God and ourselves. We narrowed the field considerably and actually lessened the likelihood of inner religious experience. The Bible became an excuse for not learning how literature “works.” Catholics were on symbolic overload; Protestants reacted and became symbolically starved.”
― The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
― The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with better morals but to create a community of prophets and professional lovers, men and women who would surrender to the mystery of the fire of the Spirit that burns within, who would live in ever greater fidelity to the omnipresent Word of God, who would enter into the center of it all, the very heart and mystery of Christ, into the center of the flame that consumes, purifies, and sets everything aglow with peace, joy, boldness, and extravagant, furious love. This, my friend, is what it really means to be a Christian.”
― The Furious Longing of God
― The Furious Longing of God
Dennis’s 2025 Year in Books
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