Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the...

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the...

And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run...

This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand...

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

I won’t pretend that I’ve arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get puffed up with pride. But I’ll tell you what deflates my arrogance and...

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote, your idea of worship will be fuzzy and ill-formed. The closer you get...

Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.

One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes...

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

According to Benedict’s scheme, the community reads through… the entire book of Psalms every week. The monks are therefore exposed… to all the despairing, doubtful, bitter, vindictive, jingoistic, nationalistic, and seemingly racist passages in the...

Didn’t Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?””The what?””The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared, universal assumption about the human condition.””What is it?””He said that life boils down to standing...

Conformity is deformity

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

… the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.

It is natural to speak of hymns as “poems,” indiscriminately, for they have the same structure. But a hymn is not necessarily a poem, while a poem that can be sung as a hymn is...

More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of reading them part of who you are, especially if they are the words of...

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness...

THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL – AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF...

All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology...

If I speak in the tongues of Reformers and of professional theologians, and I have not personal faith in Christ, my theology is nothing but the noisy beating of a snare drum. And if I...

. . . anyone who wants to elaborate relevant liberation theology must be prepared to go into the ‘examination hall’ of the poor. Only after sitting on the benches of he humble will he or...

Jerry Falwell said that the reason that September 11th happened, the reason that God allowed it to happen, was because of certain people in our country. People like, and I’m quoting, ‘the pagans,’ which is...

I believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or hybrid subjects in order to challenge conventional notions of exclusive belonging, identity and...

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That’s not fundamentalism, that’s the...

Christ is God (Rom. 9:5). Jesus is Lord (Rom. 10:9, 12-13; 14:5-9; 2 Cor. 4:5; 12:8-10; Phil. 2:9-11 [expressly after the Resurrection]; Col. 2:6; 1 Tim. 6:3; Titus 2:13 [where he is called God and...

The Divine decree is the necessary condition of the Divine foreknowledge. If God does not first decide what shall come to pass, he cannot know what will come to pass. An event must be made...

Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ”.~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God’s solidarity with humanity.

Great praxis demands great piety.

Joy isn’t grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

The theology of the cross is not a cerebral thing; it profoundly affects our Christian experience and existence, making demands upon our whole lives and turning theology into something which controls not just our thoughts,...

Have you by any chance an edition of St. Ignatius’s treatise against the Gnostics?” he asked in a low clear voice. The young assistant looked gravely back. “Not for sale, I’m afraid,” he said. “Nor,...

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ”shaggy dog” stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself...

If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate it, I am probably too comfortable and proud to try to question myself.

Always, in Lincoln’s mature theology, there is paradox. There is starting this, yet there is also tenderness; there is melancholy, yet there is also humor: there is moral law, yet there is also compassion. History...

In principle, to be sure, the Reformation idea of the universal priesthood of all believers meant that not only the clergy but also the laity, not only the theologian but also the magistrate, had the...

…’joy’ in Phillippians is a defiant ‘Nevertheless!’ that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians’ anxiety…

I feel compelled to make another ‘nonapology.’ Many readers are likely to be concerned about my use of masculine pronouns in relation to God. I think I both understand and appreciate this concern. It is...

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Tema ‘Boga’ ne dispenzira teologa od njegove biografije. To ga razlikuje od stručnjaka koji se bavi znanošću o religiji.

cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus’ teaching and ministry, without any...

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it...