Chapter 49
Good Monday Morning to this new week
Living Faith: Wisdom from Modern Theological Minds
1. N.T. Wright:
“Heaven is important, but it’s not the end of the world.”
2. Stanley Hauerwas:
“The church doesn’t have a social strategy; the church is a social strategy.”
3. John Piper:
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”
4. Miroslav Volf:
“Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.”
5. Timothy Keller:
“The gospel says you are more sinful and flawed than you ever dared believe, but more accepted and loved than you ever dared hope.”
6. Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger):
“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.”
7. Elizabeth A. Johnson:
“We are not just stewards of creation; we are also members of the community of creation.”
8. Robert Barron:
“Your life is not about you. You are sent to reflect the glory of God, to act as a conduit of grace to the world, to carry the divine life within you and share it.”
9. Hans Küng:
“No peace among the nations without peace among the religions. No peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions.”
10. Gustavo Gutiérrez:
“You say you care about the poor? Then tell me, what are their names?”
11. John Zizioulas:
“To be and to be in communion are the same thing.”
12. David Bentley Hart:
“God’s beauty is infinite and inexhaustible; its splendor is the measure of all things.”
13. Serene Jones:
“Theology is not an abstract discipline; it is a way of making sense of the struggles and hopes of real people.”
14. Jacquelyn Grant:
“Theologizing about liberation must not become an abstract exercise divorced from the realities of those who suffer.”
15. Kwame Bediako:
“The gospel is at home in every culture, and no culture is the gospel’s permanent home.”
16. C. René Padilla:
“The gospel of the kingdom is good news of total salvation: spiritual, material, social, and ecological.”
17. Mercy Amba Oduyoye:
“In African cosmology, life is the ultimate gift, and theology must affirm its flourishing for all.”
18. Willie James Jennings:
“The Christian imagination must be reshaped by a vision of belonging that disrupts segregation and exclusion.”
19. James K.A. Smith:
Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into your mind; he is after nothing less than your wants, your loves, your longings.”
20. Catherine Keller:
“Creation is not an event of the past, but the ongoing process of God’s relational becoming.”
Wishing an inspired start to this new week with these 20 Voices shaping faith in the 21st century.
Philemon