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“people who have a loving mental representation of God tend to have a greater capacity to think objectively about controversial matters and to make rational decisions than do people who have a threatening mental representation of God.[”
― Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence
― Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence
“only one escape is open: return to the condition to which everything earthly finally belongs, that is, to the condition before his face, in obedience to his word, in hope of the promise of his blessing. This is symbolized in the act of baptism.”
― On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene: Unpublished Lectures and Sermons
― On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene: Unpublished Lectures and Sermons
“Irenaeus’s view of the atonement is therefore based on the incarnation – he lays little emphasis on Christ’s death, treating it as part of his life, the whole of which brings about our”
― The History of Christian Thought
― The History of Christian Thought
“Discipleship of the Crucified leads necessarily to resistance to idolatry on every front. This resistance is and must be the most important mark of Christian freedom.”
― On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene: Unpublished Lectures and Sermons
― On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene: Unpublished Lectures and Sermons
“the Revelation is a gift—a work of intense imagination that pulls its reader into a world of sky battles between angels and beasts, lurid punishments and glorious salvations, kaleidoscopic vision and cosmic song. It is a world in which children are instinctively at home and in which adults, by becoming as little children, recapture an elemental involvement in the basic conflicts and struggles that permeate moral existence, and then go on to discover again the soaring adoration and primal affirmations for which God made us.”
― Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple
― Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple
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