‘I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.’
- W.C. Fields
‘No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.’
- George Bernard Shaw
‘Every verse in the Bible is virtually a concrete faith-event in my own life….I have been personally present [...]
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‘[T]he real event of understanding… goes continually beyond what can be brought to the understanding of the other person’s words by methodological effort and critical self-control. It is true of every conversation that through it something different has come to be.’
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
‘To the extent that God’s revelation as such accomplishes what only God [...]
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Jonathan and I have begun to read together the seminal work of Radical Orthodoxy, John Milbank’s Theology and Social Theory. We’ve decided to interact via dueling blog posts; he posted the first last week and I’ll soon be posting my response on his blog (as well as copying his post and my response here). At [...]
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‘No matter how right we are in what we believe about God, no matter how accurately we phrase our belief or how magnificently and persuasively we preach or write or declare it, if love does not shape the way we speak and act, we falsify the creed, we confess a lie. Believing without loving is [...]
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‘Jesus does not promise that when we bless our enemies and do good to them they will not despitefully use and persecute us. They certainly will. But not even that can hurt or overcome us, so long as we pray for them. For if we pray for them, we are taking their distress [...]
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‘”Woman,” Jesus, when he had lived and died, said or would have said, using a word perhaps not used so gently since Adam was a gardener – “Woman, why weepest thou?”… When Mary looks at Jesus, knowing who he is, what does she see? A more amazing question – when Jesus looks at Mary, and [...]
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