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‘John Calvin famously wrote of the universal, "total" depravity of the human will. We could get a better hearing for Calvin today if we chose instead the words of Ishmael [Moby Dick] to describe the human plight "sadly in need of mending." Not just in need of forgiveness, mind you, but of mending — rectification. In no other way can God's justice be worked out on a universal plane.’
― Fleming Rutledge
— Aug 01, 2024 06:59AM
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John Anders
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“There has never been a satisfactory account of the origin of evil, and there will be none on this side of the consummation of the kingdom of God. Evil is a vast excrescence, a monstrous contradiction that cannot be explained but can only be denounced and resisted wherever it appears.”
― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, p. 419
— Jun 06, 2024 11:09AM
― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, p. 419
John Anders
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“God's apocalyptic war is fought with weapons of self-giving love and total identification with those who suffer "outside the camp" (Heb. 13:13), whoever they are.”
― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, p. 275
— Apr 10, 2024 08:42PM
― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, p. 275
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“Afluent communities need to understand that they are enslaved by the pursuit of wealth, comfort, and status, often achieved at the expense of the poor.”
― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, p. 226
— Mar 29, 2024 09:07AM
― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, p. 226
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“We are on safe ground to argue that the crucifixion of Jesus was the most secular, irreligious happening ever to find its way into the arena of faith.”
― Fleming Rutledge (p. 54)
— Feb 15, 2024 07:39AM
― Fleming Rutledge (p. 54)
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“By the grace of God, however, there may be readers who think they have no faith, or have inadequate faith. The very existence of such doubts are themselves a sign of the divine action that elicits the cry, "Help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24), words to which our Lord himself responded with immediate, sovereign favor. It is such readers that I have especially in mind.”
― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, xvii
— Feb 07, 2024 05:10AM
“By the grace of God, however, there may be readers who think they have no faith, or have inadequate faith. The very existence of such doubts are themselves a sign of the divine action that elicits the cry, "Help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24), words to which our Lord himself responded with immediate, sovereign favor. It is such readers that I have especially in mind.”
― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, xvii
