Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
FAITH COMES FIRST
Martin Luther • Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional
Yet the emptiness and meaninglessness of divine love should not lead us to despair. Rather, it should recall us to finitude as the condition for any sense of responsibility and love. Only someone who is finite—only someone who understands what loss means—can care for the beloved. Only someone who is finite can allow the world to matter and only som
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
theologians have been saying for a long time that we should conceive of Christian faith more as a way of life than as assent to a list of propositional assertions.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Bonhoeffer sees a volunteer-society as the antithesis of a community of personhood.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
“Christopraxis,” he wrote, “is the medium through which the Christian community embodies and enacts its fundamental vision of the gospel. . . . Christopraxis is the ministry [in a congregation] of making disciples” (Anderson 48, 53).
John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
It is this experience of ministering to our neighbor that allows for a cruciform transcendence that answers Secular 3 with a faith manifest in love of God and neighbor. It’s not that you suck or that when God looks at you, God only sees Jesus. Rather, you are invited to recognize and admit your places of isolation, rejection, loneliness, and fear a
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
He is a sorrowful man, but he is not a miserable man.
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones • Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
narrated both a deeply individual response and an ethical philosophy orientated to a larger social world.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Faith is a mode of life. Where the radical question is alive, all life becomes a hearing, a listening for permission to go on; faith is this listening—to the gospel.” Lutheranism, 41.