Sublime

For Volf and Luther, the proper form of humility is bound in an assertion like, “Along with all other human beings and the rest of creation, my own self is not the kind of [being] that could be something on its own.”

D’Alembert was a gifted mathematician who aimed to bring to all the sciences the clarity of arithmetic and geometry. “The creation motive of the Christian religion gave way to faith in the creative power of scientific thought which seeks its ground of certainty only within itself.”

This dominating principle was not, soteriologically, justification by faith, but, in the widest sense cosmologically, the Sovereignty of the Triune God over the whole Cosmos, in all its spheres and kingdoms, visible and invisible. A primordial Sovereignty which eradiates in mankind in a threefold deduced supremacy, viz., 1. The Sovereignty in the S

“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others” (Bonhoeffer, 1972, 382).

This is not an entirely passive or haphazard process of openness to influence by the environment, but one that the exercise of human choice directs.

The character and compassion of a minister more than the characteristics of the message preached determine the quality of the message heard.

It is why we don’t try to do this listening and discernment on our own; we commit to living in a church community, in humble submission to one another.

The real tension between depth psychology and Christianity is that whereas theology idealises the Christ figure as the sole agent of redemption, psychology argues that every man and woman must realise this new wholeness in his or her own way.

Salvation is only effected by, one might say, our being in communion with God through the community of humans in communion, viz., the church’.