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Book cover for The Possibility of Satan: A Case for Reformulating the Catholic Church’s Teachings on the Devil
when the language of myth is transposed into doctrinal formulations, there is an apparent tendency to lose sight of the mode of truth mediated by myth and to speak in terms of certainties rather than possibilities. This misplaced certainty ...more
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Philip Yancey
“Oddly, as I look back on Jesus' time from the present perspective, it is the very ordinariness of the disciples that gives me hope. Jesus does not seem to choose his followers on the basis of native talent or perfectibility or potential for greatness. When he lived on earth he surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren. Three followers in particular (the brothers James and John, and Peter) Jesus singled out for his strongest reprimands—yet two of these would become the most prominent leaders of the early Christians. I cannot avoid the impression that Jesus prefers working with unpromising recruits. Once, after he had sent out seventy-two disciples on a training mission, Jesus rejoiced at the successes they reported back. No passage in the Gospels shows him more exuberant. “At that time139 Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said,‘ I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.”
Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew

Rachel Held Evans
“Ultimately, all are commissioned. All are called. All belong to the holy order of God’s beloved. The hands that pass the peace can pass a meal to the man on the street. The hands that cup together to receive Christ in the bread will extend to receive Christ in the immigrant, the refugee, the lonely, or the sick. Hands plant, and uproot, and cook, and caress. They repair, and rewire, and change diapers, and dress wounds. Hands tickle giggling children and wipe away tears. Hands rub heaving bellies of big, ugly dogs. Hands sanctify all sorts of ordinary things and make them holy. Through touch, God gave us the power to injure or to heal, to wage war or to wash feet. Let us not forget the gravity of that. Let us not forget the call.”
Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Juan Calvino
“«Es verdad que nadie llega jamás a adquirir un claro conocimiento de sí mismo si no ha contemplado el rostro de Dios y no se ha percatado de cómo Dios lo ve. El orgullo, que está arraigado en nosotros, nos conduce a considerarnos justos y honestos, sabios y santos, hasta que hayamos sido convencidos por los irrefutables argumentos de nuestra injusticia, de nuestras faltas, de nuestra necedad y de nuestra impureza. Esta convicción no se da mientras nos contemplamos únicamente a nosotros mismos y no a Dios, de quién brota la única regla con la que debemos medirnos, y la que debe regirlo todo.

El ojo acostumbrado a lo negro acaba considerando que lo castaño oscuro o lo poco luminoso goza de una magnífica blancura. En efecto, si consideramos todas las cosas con lucidez, nos parece que tenemos la más clara visión imaginable; pero, si elevamos los ojos para mirar el sol, nuestra gran lucidez respecto de las cosas de la tierra se ve inmediatamente deslumbrada y destruida por completo a causa de tal claridad.

Es así también cuando evaluamos nuestros bienes espirituales. Incluso si no nos preocupamos del más allá, satisfechos de nuestra justicia, de nuestra sabiduría y de nuestra fuerza, nos apreciamos y nos adulamos hasta el punto de considerarnos semidioses. Pero, si empezamos a elevar nuestros pensamientos hacia Dios, debidamente conscientes de quién es él, y a considerar la perfección de su justicia, de su sabiduría y de su poder, que debería ser nuestro modelo, entonces todo lo que hasta el momento nos parecía, erróneamente, justo se nos presenta con los repugnantes colores de la suciedad. Lo que consideramos sabiduría se nos presentará como necedad y lo que poseía una buena apariencia de fuerza se delatará como nada más que debilidad.

Esa es, según las Escrituras, la causa del temor y temblor que han abrumado a los santos cada vez que han sentido la presencia de Dios. Podemos ver como quienes se veían llenos de seguridad y marchan con la cabeza alta al estar lejos de Dios, dan por el contrario muestra de pánico y terror hasta el punto de quedar angustiados, totalmente paralizados, por el temor a la muerte, como anonadados, al manifestar Dios su gloria a ellos.

Eso nos permite llegar a la conclusión de que los hombres nunca experimentan el sentimiento de su pobreza con tanta intensidad como cuando se ven comparados con la majestad de Dios.»”
Juan Calvino

Albert Camus
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
Albert Camus

“There is no Road to Damascus moment, no flash of light; rather it is the story of a young man whose spiritual life was increasingly in conflict with the world around him. This is an early expression of Calvin as a stranger in a foreign land.”
Bruce Gordon, Calvin

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