Sublime

Lyotard

By a Schaefferian strategy,

2. LA JUSTICIA PROPIA TEOLÓGICA

He is a preference, a choice, who when we convert bestows upon us what we’ve always deserved. With little grip on a biblical understanding of the Almighty, we who are called to be shaped in His holy image have done the reverse: we have shaped Him in our image. As a result, He looks a lot like us.

When we hear that “we” were attacked, do we think “we” the church or “we” as Americans? What is our primary identity? When the Bush administration said that a way of life was being attacked, it was true, but it was not the gospel that was being attacked. It is no coincidence that what was attacked wasn’t the World Council of Churches but the symbol

We need the gospel that is in our brothers, and they need the gospel that is in us. So accountability must ask the hard questions, but it must do so as if Jesus were real. Because he is. And since Jesus is real, his personality and his judgments should shape the personality and judgments of accountability groups. Our hearts should not be shrunken a

What a charmer. Lamech's behavior is a textbook example of what Augustine calls the libido dominandi, variously translated as the "desire to dominate" or the "will to power." Libido dominandi is raw violence-unprovoked, unrestricted, unconflicted. It is the characteristic driving force of the earthly city, "which, when it s

Authority to define what is right and wrong is now linked to a role, rather than to a powerful personality (as was the case in Red); it’s the priest’s robe, whoever wears it, that defines authority.