I am in love with the essay, "Atheism is Wasted on the Nonbeliever," by Richard Rodriguez, which I read for one of my classes this term. A few theological ideas have been swimming around in my head for the past several ...
Atheism is Wasted on the Nonbeliever
Theology Quote
I've been trying to make sense of this whole plurality thing. I'm no universalist, I'm learning, but only because it impinges on our freedom. Someone in my Balthasar class said the other week how universalism works in the ...
“The plurality of religions … is due primarily to the simplicity of the uneducated”
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"Man … always acts either self-loving, just for the hell of it, or God-loving, just for the heaven of it; his reasons, his appetites are secondary motivations. Man chooses either life or death, but he chooses; everything ...
Acts of Heaven or Hell (via W.H. Auden)
Book Quote, Theology Quote
"For us neither the Epistle to the Romans, nor the present theological position, nor the present state of the world, nor the relation between God and the world, is simple. And he who is now concerned with truth must boldly ...
Theology is not simple
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I don't like a lot of what Saint Paul says, but here's a verse I love:
"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, ...
Exegesis
From Lauren, Theology Quote
"When someone comes with his loneliness to the minister, he can only expect that his loneliness will be understood and felt, so that he no longer has to run away from it but can accept it as an expression of his basic human ...
The Lonely Minister
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“... but at the immanent level it is a story of the perichoretic outpouring of love and birth between the three who are only in relation one to another. All three Persons, figuratively, give birth—the First Person as ...
Perichoresis
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"If a child or brother or sister or a loved one of yours strays from the church in terms of faith practice and morality, as long as you continue to love that person, and hold him or her in union and forgiveness, he or she is ...
Joy to the World!
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"Nevertheless, this new mode of postmodern rationality is frightening to some Christians. They find it frightening because they have completely succumbed to a one-sided objectivism out of a deep-seated fear of the dangers of ...
William Stacy Johnson, “Reading the Scriptures Faithfully in a Postmodern Age”
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