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for Augustine the journey inward was an open battle with devils and demons. Augustine’s pastoral practice gave us an inner self, but this self, to use Taylor’s language, was porous.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
God’s larger dream: a world in which human dignity is real, and the presence of God is manifest.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
The red thread that is both the center of and the impetus to testify to Paul’s story is the experience of the ministerial being of Jesus. The plot and purpose of the story is to reveal the divine hypostasis encountering our own hypostasis.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
God is faithful.
Paul David Tripp • What Did You Expect?
become Judaism’s most controversial proposition: that since mankind in its diversity cannot be reduced to a single image, so God cannot be reduced to a single faith or language. God exists in difference and thus chooses as His witness a people dedicated to difference.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
a programme for peace in an unredeemed world.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
divinity. God must attach us, in all our frailty and finitude, to God.
Kathryn Tanner • Christ the Key (Current Issues in Theology Book 7)
They will know us, not because we are heroes and power brokers, but much the opposite: they will know us because we are in the world as ministers, entering the death experiences of persons as the transcendent experience of love. Even against the pull of Secular 3 and the closed spin of the immanent frame, the age of authenticity leads to the strong
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expectation he cannot be defeated. In contrast, secular faith necessarily remains vulnerable. As long as you keep secular faith, you can be defeated by loss.