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"God’s faithfulness to this people issues forth in the promise of a new covenant, which will implant God’s laws within the people, leading to a renewal of the depth and breadth of their relationship with God along with God’s merciful forgetting of their sins." (Commentary on 8:8-12)

"...we need to be careful not to associate a theology of merit and doctrines of reward in the world to come with attitudes of self-righteousness, uncertainty about salvation, or obsession with definition of legal practice. (157)

The New Perspective, as I have been maintaining, has tended to remove works from any positive functional role in Jewish eschatology and soteriology. Lutheran theology, however, has tended to neglect the role of works in the soteriology of the NT and has so stressed the role of faith that it has swallowed up the area of initial and final justification and excluded works from both. (119)

"...to step into a Christian house church was to step into a woman's world." (110)

A theology informed by cognitive linguistics can combine Barbour's critical realism with Lakoff and Johnson's embodied realism. Perhaps such a theological perspective might be called sacramental realism. Here I use the word "sacramental" in the broad sense...to what the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer calls "countless ways by which God uses material things to reach out to us." (50)

If the findings of cognitive linguistics can be summed up in one sentence, it may be this: We think with our bodies. The most fundamental processes of human perception and cognition are grounded in the particularity of our physicality. There is no such thing as mind-body dualism: the mind is embodied. (21)