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He learned to obey increasingly difficult divine demands with their accompanying increasingly difficult opposition and affliction through the whole of his life, which prepared him for the greatest of all divine demands upon him and the greatest attending suffering he would or could ever experience. Pg 64

The Art of Rhetoric Aristotle argued "For the orator to produce conviction three qualities are necessary ... good sense, virtue, and good will."

Vitruvlus argued that an architect should be motivated by three central themes firmitas (strength, solidity, firmness), utilitas (purpose, function ality, ucility), and venustas (beauty, delight, proportion).

I really don’t like this book so far but I’m listening to it on my runs so it helps keep my mind busy. All good topics, very similar to most spiritual discipline books

Not only must we read the Bible Christocentrically to understand its meaning, we must read it Christocentrically in order to grow from it personally. There are, in the end, only two ways to read the Bible: is it basically about me or basically about Jesus? In other words, is it basically about what I must do, or basically about what he has done. Pg64

What does the text actually say?
How does it say it?
When and why is it being said? Pg 39


Clarity, conviction and compassion ph 45

As the Bread of Life, Jesus knew that inviting someone to the table was never just about eating.
It was always about nourishment. It was always about life.

The regulative principal… yay

Honestly not as exciting as the last book, very academic but so far so good.

“Implicit in the materiality of Christian worship is this sense that God meets us in materiality, and that the natural world is always more than just nature it is charged with the presence and glory of God.” 143

In shot, we lose the sense in which Christian worship is also political: it marks us out as and trains us to be a peculiar people who are citizens of another City and subjects of a coming King. 154

“I want to make this point somewhat differently: the university remains a charged religious institution not (only) because of the epistemic conditions that undergird knowledge and research, but (also) because the university
is a formative, liturgical institution, animated by rituals and liturgies that constitute a pedagogy of desire.”- a beautiful sentence after discussing malls, sports events and college form us

So far the easiest theology text book I’ve ever read- his footnotes are hilarious too lol

Too many good quotes- loving it so far 🙌🏼

Desire shapes how one sees and understands the world, and so the key question for the Christian in pursuit of knowledge is first to consider the shape and "aim" of one's desire, and to specifically seek to increase one's desire for God. -pg. 71