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we are going to speak of what a human being is, we have not said enough until we speak of God.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Because faith is bound in this spatial conception, there is little need for the theologian, for there is little interest in speaking of distinct ontological realities and radical transformations by a wholly other Spirit.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Covering Up Luther: How Barth’s Christology Challenged the Deus Absconditus that Haunts Modernity (Veritas Book 9)
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To our normal human capacities God is nada, “no-thing.”19
Gerald G. May • The Dark Night of the Soul
so Barth had to start all over, seeking a way to speak of the coming of a transcendent God into the immanent frame of modern life.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
In their revolt against Hegel’s essentialism, all existentialists contend that the world is fragmented. History is a series of unreconciled conflicts, and man’s existence is filled with anxiety and threatened with meaninglessness. While the ultimate Christian answer is not found in any of these existential assertions, there is much here by which th
... See moreMartin Luther King Jr. • Strength to Love
Barth’s strategy was to find within biblical language itself a way to speak of God’s breaking into a modern world framed by immanence.