Sublime

Somehow, Hildegard managed to balance equal dignity with meaningful difference, in a way I’d not yet encountered. I wish I’d followed that thread; perhaps it would have pulled me into the Christian cosmos earlier. Instead, I let it go and lost myself in the labyrinth of postmodern feminism for the next ten years.

Corresponding to each of these relationships are four types of relational poverty: a poverty of spiritual intimacy (with God); a poverty of being (with self); a poverty of community (with others); and a poverty of stewardship (with creation).

The way that this modern moral order takes shape around chosen identity makes it complicated for pastors. If the church or the pastor tries too hard to shape a person’s life, it will be a violation of the modern moral order.

The economic predicament with which he was identified in birth placed him initially with the great mass of men on the earth.…

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In all roles theologians are committed to that form of existence arising from Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. They know that

How can squatters in the slums of Manila, villagers in rural Uganda, public housing residents in Chicago—or any one of us, for that matter—be returned to the dwelling place of God?