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Chapter 49

Good Monday Morning to this new week

Living Faith: Wisdom from Modern Theological Minds<\/strong>

1. N.T. Wright<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHeaven is important, but it\u2019s not the end of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Stanley Hauerwas<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe church doesn\u2019t have a social strategy; the church is a social strategy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. John Piper<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGod is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Miroslav Volf<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cForgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Timothy Keller<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe gospel says you are more sinful and flawed than you ever dared believe, but more accepted and loved than you ever dared hope.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Elizabeth A. Johnson<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not just stewards of creation; we are also members of the community of creation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Robert Barron<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour 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.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Hans K\u00fcng<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo peace among the nations without peace among the religions. No peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou say you care about the poor? Then tell me, what are their names?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. John Zizioulas<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo be and to be in communion are the same thing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. David Bentley Hart<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGod\u2019s beauty is infinite and inexhaustible; its splendor is the measure of all things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Serene Jones<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheology is not an abstract discipline; it is a way of making sense of the struggles and hopes of real people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. Jacquelyn Grant<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheologizing about liberation must not become an abstract exercise divorced from the realities of those who suffer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. Kwame Bediako<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe gospel is at home in every culture, and no culture is the gospel\u2019s permanent home.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. C. Ren\u00e9 Padilla<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe gospel of the kingdom is good news of total salvation: spiritual, material, social, and ecological.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17. Mercy Amba Oduyoye<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn African cosmology, life is the ultimate gift, and theology must affirm its flourishing for all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

18. Willie James Jennings<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Christian imagination must be reshaped by a vision of belonging that disrupts segregation and exclusion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19. James K.A. Smith<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus is a teacher who doesn\u2019t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn\u2019t content to simply deposit new ideas into your mind; he is after nothing less than your wants, your loves, your longings.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

20. Catherine Keller<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCreation is not an event of the past, but the ongoing process of God\u2019s relational becoming.\u201d<\/em>

Wishing an inspired start to this new week with these 20 Voices shaping faith in the 21st century.

Philemon <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chapter 49 Good Monday Morning to this new week Living Faith: Wisdom from Modern Theological Minds 1. N.T. Wright: \u201cHeaven is important, but it\u2019s not the end of the world.\u201d 2. Stanley Hauerwas: \u201cThe church doesn\u2019t have a social strategy; the church is a social strategy.\u201d 3. John Piper: \u201cGod is most glorified in us … <\/p>\n

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