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“it is hard for theology to persist when it has forgotten its purpose: to critically discern, articulate, and commend visions of the true life in light of the person, life, and teachings of Jesus Christ.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“theologians do not create the “treasure” but present it ever anew; instead of “proclaiming” themselves and their theologies (see 2 Cor. 4:6), theologians proclaim, each in his or her own way, Jesus Christ, who has become for them “wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption” (1 Cor. 1:30). At their best, theologians’ visions unite with their lives in seeking to be what Paul called “the aroma of Christ,” who himself is the true life (2 Cor. 2:15).”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“We also give up on the quest for truth when we marshal all forces—in exegesis and history as well as in philosophical, moral, and practical theology—to “discover” and corroborate predetermined dogmatic stances.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“Our theology is insufficiently Christian—and less revealing of the truth than it should be, if Christian claims are indeed true (as we believe them to be)—when we repeat in religious idiom normative stances that nontheologians advocate, often with better arguments and greater rhetorical power.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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