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Christian dogmatics, tr. from the Germ. by W. Urwick
Hans Lassen Martensen (bp. of Zealand.)
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Living with and living into another’s total love—especially God’s—is painfully humbling.
Peter Bouteneff • How to Be a Sinner
systematic theology.
Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
It is not an exaggeration to say that one of the most important events in the early modern history of the Eastern Orthodox Church was the publication in 1782 of a book called the Philokalia, which means ‘the love of beauty’.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
“Being microcosm, man is also mediator. It is his God-given task to reconcile and harmonize the noetic and the material realms, to bring them to unity, to spiritualize the material, and to render manifest all the latent capacities of the created order.” - Kallistos Ware
Lost through sin, the gifts of Word and Spirit that made humans the image of God at their creation would need to be restored to humanity by Christ in some new way that improves upon the original situation that permitted their loss.
Kathryn Tanner • Christ the Key (Current Issues in Theology Book 7)
just as the recognizability of the Word in history is bound to the humanity of Jesus, so the recognizability of Jesus in the world is bound to the visible community insofar as it is constituted by turning and returning to the foundational and sustaining act of Christ.