Sublime

The church does not need more innovators. It needs more ministers. It needs more people who participate in the ministry of God. For what will save the world through the church is not the expressive creativity of the self but the encounter with the living God who is ministering new life out of nothingness.

would trade their seven-month deployment to Ramadi for that man’s life, living here?” No one raised a hand. Some Marines looked uncomfortable. Some looked angry. Some looked furious. “Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if this man supported the insurgency. The translator said the man was a bad guy. An ‘ali baba.’ But clearly, this man has suffered. And i

Lyotard

Barth pushes for something deeper and more difficult than simply showing that the immanent frame is open to transcendence. Barth seeks to show that the immanent frame is open to encounters with the transcendent God who is God. This God who is God is known not outside the world but deeply within it. God acts in the world, and only through God’s acts

It is, once more, a measure of how far the Western church has drifted from those moorings that it has been possible for Christians in our own day to think of bringing “justice and peace” into the world by the normal, disastrous means of bombs and bullets.

faculty line up their intellectual loves with their desire to instill their particular vision of orthodoxy or their desire to form students in a theological radicalism that they believe will free us from the problems of orthodoxy.

The desire for meaning.

irrational. Instead of making talk of God submit to the logic of immanence and therefore be seen as coherent by the closed-world structures of the university, Barth chooses to start with incoherence. Pastor Barth is wagering that the only way toward a coherence that attends to God’s action is to embrace incoherence.

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