We are all tempted to create a God of our own making, who will uphold the status quo and baptize our values as God’s definitive word. When God challenges our way of life and the religious and cultural values we hold dear, we are tempted to run away in search of a new god—a god of our own making—who will support our privileges and prejudices and lea... See more

God’s action, particularly inside the immanent frame, on the other hand, can be known only in confession, doubt, and dialectics (tensions and conflicts). This is the crisis! And this crisis cannot—and should not—be avoided. In an immanent frame, centered on commerce and consumption, avoiding all crises is a high good. But the faithful church cannot

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The central evil of the modern view is that “religion is a private, personal matter.” This is a revolutionary idea, a product of the modern era and of revolutionary ideologies. Basic to the Western world has been the premise that, because the God of the Scriptures is the living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things therein, any attempt

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