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And Gregory of Nazianzus, in the fourth century, had enunciated the principle by which Christological reflection had therefore to be governed: what had not been assumed had not been healed – which is to say, if any part of our humanity was absent from Christ, then that part of our humanity had never been saved.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
He says it all sincerely. This is God's single plan, through Torah-equipped Israel, for the world.
N. T. Wright • Justification
We don’t know the kind of shared suffering Peter is referencing, though. I wonder how much humility could be afforded the Western church if we acquainted ourselves more with the suffering of the church in the two-thirds world. Suddenly Monday morning pop-ins don’t seem like such a big a deal. Let us stand with our brothers who are being slaughtered
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
If I am Abraham and maintain my secular faith, I believe that Isaac’s life is priceless—I am devoted to his well-being as an end in itself—but I also believe that his life can be lost. Indeed, it is only by acknowledging and being responsive to Isaac’s finitude that I can care for him.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
As Hauerwas puts it, “Aquinas was right that only God is pure act. Only in God are existence and essence one. Accordingly, our language about God is necessarily analogical, which means that theology has the task of helping the church not say more about God than needs to be said.” Hannah’s Child, 52.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
existential crisis. But the school wanted to do better,
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))

man sees himself as meaningfully integrated with a history in which God came to us in the past, is living under us in the present, and will come to liberate us in the future. But when man’s historical consciousness is broken, the whole Christian message seems like a lecture about the great pioneers to a boy on an acid trip.
Henri J.M. Nouwen • The Wounded Healer
Thus Gutiérrez follows Oscar Cullmann in describing Jesus’s posture as an “eschatological radicalism”: a hope rooted in labor that is awaiting the advent of an upheaval, a parousia of another order, a restoration and reconciliation of all things.11