Sublime

To have no relationship would be death. This ‘relationality’ can transcend the absolutism of a single ideology and the totalitarian aspect of relativism.

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.

the power of some needs the folly of the others.

Faith, the church and theology must demonstrate what they really believe and hope about the man from Nazareth who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and what practical consequences they wish to draw from this.

The process of formation for Paul can take the form of divine action only because it is the real ontic union with the being of Jesus himself.

a "low" ecclesiology, a mere individualism with saved individuals getting together from time to time for mutual benefit, were to turn out to be a denial of some of the key elements of Paul's missionary theology?

What is revealed to him is that he cannot know what is wanted of him (and therefore quite what he himself wants); and that what he most needs – God’s grace – he can do nothing to secure (hope is always hope for the wrong thing). As a Jew you can – at least to some extent – know what is wanted of you; in Paul’s Christianity this is the one thing you

identity-involvement dilemma.