“Each theme employs elements of the Restoration Narrative, opening up each work for serious theological consideration. T. S. Eliot once observed that “mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.”17 The greatest writers in the world have stolen the greatest Story ever told, time and time again. Christians should recognize this Story and seize the opportunity presented by this towering influence.”
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
“Christian ethics maintains that the whole man must be good in intellect and will, heart and conscience. To do good is a duty and a desire, a task and a privilege, and thus the work of love. Love is therefore the fulfilling of the law.”
― The Philosophy of Revelation
― The Philosophy of Revelation
“Our mission as thinking Christians who seek to love God with our minds should find expression in the way that we read.”
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
“And the strongest emotion was that life was as precious as it was puzzling. It was an ecstasy because it was an adventure; it was an adventure because it was an opportunity.”
― A Year with G. K. Chesterton: 365 Days of Wisdom, Wit, and Wonder
― A Year with G. K. Chesterton: 365 Days of Wisdom, Wit, and Wonder
“The Christian gospel especially is at its heart a living story, not an abstract system.”
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
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