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James Wheeler
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I had to re-read chapter 5 again because it was so good. Title: The Phenomenology of Divine Love.
For Farley, compassion is not only a passive feeling of sympathy for others, although that is part of it, but compassion is "the intensity of divine being as it enters into suffering, guilt and evil to mediate the power to overcome them." 112
— Feb 26, 2022 01:06PM
For Farley, compassion is not only a passive feeling of sympathy for others, although that is part of it, but compassion is "the intensity of divine being as it enters into suffering, guilt and evil to mediate the power to overcome them." 112
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James Wheeler
is on page 114 of 152
"Love is a kenosis of the plentitude of power. It is realized, not in pure unity and self sufficiency, but as the power to generate the strange wonder of difference." 98
Farley is a top notch theologian. This is so good.
— Feb 23, 2022 08:13PM
Farley is a top notch theologian. This is so good.
James Wheeler
is on page 84 of 152
"The power to resist and redeem evil will not be like the power that dehumanizes people. Redemption requires liberation and healing; power that dominates, orders or manipulates is not the kind of power that can free and restore the human spirit." 69
— Feb 19, 2022 04:48PM
James Wheeler
is on page 49 of 152
Every pastor should read chapter 2 of this book. How callousness, deception and bondage complicate the simple definitions.
— Feb 12, 2022 11:10AM
James Wheeler
is on page 32 of 152
"The obscenity of such a [trauma] event annihilates the possibility of soothing ourselves with theories that justify the ways of God in an evil world. In the wake of such wanton cruelty, defenses of a divine order of justice become bitter mockeries." 21
— Feb 11, 2022 04:58PM
