Sublime

Beeley provides much discussion and several examples from the church fathers in his Unity of Christ, esp. 39, 134, 164, 193.

Virtue cannot be limited to those with the means to practice it.

The urgent work calling us in theological education is to touch the divine reality of longing, to enter into its power and newness as the logic inside the work of gathering

that those who follow Schweitzer in placing Jesus within apocalyptic Jewish eschatology belong in a category distinct from those who do not;3 and that this category is where the real leading edge of contemporary Jesus-scholarship is to be found.

Lyotard

Once we have come to understand that faith is the powerful life force described by Luther, we can then recognize it as it displays itself on the pages of the New Testament in three major dimensions: 1. The presence of a new power within the individual, erupting into a break with the past through turning in repentance and the release of forgiveness.

In both works Bonhoeffer contended that communities of faith in Christ must assume concrete form in the world in order to radiate the presence of God credibly and effectively, and to live in service to those in need.