Sublime

During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds.

we will gain wisdom into how Edwards thought about the problem of nominalism and how he addressed it.

The Christian gospel, it is often said, is designed to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

the gospel must supersede the prevailing assumptions of any period.

so Barth had to start all over, seeking a way to speak of the coming of a transcendent God into the immanent frame of modern life.

Secular reason, all by itself, cannot give us a basis for “sacrifice, redemption, and forgiveness,” as Paul Kalanithi concluded in his final months.

physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.