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Book cover for The Cross and Salvation
Exegesis is a human conceptual enterprise, and so is biblical theology. All the theological disciplines involve human intellectual participation. But human intellect is finite, and hence there is always room for revision of systematic ...more
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“You see, the center of Christianity has always been Jesus Christ. It is not the Bible. It is not expository preaching. It is not a personal response to the gospel message. As important as all of these are for supporting the center, the focal point of right Christian faith is God the Son who became man, lived a life of perfect righteousness, revealed the Father, died for our sins, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, bequeathed the Spirit, and will come again.”
Michael J. Svigel, RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith

Nicholas Carr
“Every intellectual technology, to put it another way, embodies an intellectual ethic, a set of assumptions about how the human mind works or should work.”
Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

Marc Brackett
“For example, more and more schools are incorporating project-based learning and design thinking—a five-stage process for solving complex problems that includes (1) defining a problem; (2) understanding the human needs involved; (3) reframing the problem in human-centric ways; (4) generating a multitude of ideas; and (5) a hands-on approach in prototyping and testing.”
Marc Brackett, Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success

Miroslav Volf
“Peace is the substance of life going well. Joy is the substance of life feeling as it should.”
Miroslav Volf, For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference

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