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"The prophets long for shalom. Hearing the voice of God in their souls, they assure people that God's kingdom of peace will come one day, and that a particular figure, weighty with centuries of longing and promise, will bring it near."

I almost want to copy out his whole chapter on Redemption.

"More education won't fix what's wrong with education. Nor will any other merely human corrective. Such fixes are tainted with the same corruption that needs fixing. That's the bad
news. The good news is that God has addressed human corruption from outside the system, and it is on this gracious initiative that Christian hope centers."

"According to God's intelligence, the way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself."

Super good so far. Loved the argument that hope needs imagination, faith and passion. And that biblical hope is always centred on love. Also liked that self-hopes weren’t seen as negative, but rather as subordinate to biblical hope.

Pretty shook that he referred to baptism as a “near death experience” and wasn’t joking….