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“Christianity that has purged the Church of the sacraments, and of the sacramental, has only ideas to substitute in their place. The result is the eradication of God from the world in all ways other than the theoretical.”
― Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe
― Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe
“The legacy of our culture’s image-smashing (a powerful part of the Puritan world) is secularization—though now replete with its own images. If we fail to give a proper account of the role that images play in Christianity, the result will not be a Christianity with no images, but simply the dominance of cultural images and a subtle conformity to the world. The only image that needs to be discarded is the one we have of ourselves as God. We are not He. Worship God. Give honor to whom honor is due. It”
― Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe
― Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe
“In describing the modern Christian use of the apocalyptic as linear, I am describing it as essentially conceived as a series of events along a timeline of history, similar to other events along the same timeline. Those events that are seen as apocalyptic differ only in that they come at the end of that timeline. This is a radical departure from classical and Orthodox Christian understanding—a departure that seriously distorts the nature of the Christian faith. History,”
― Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe
― Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe
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