Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
seriously, if we really believe, as we say we do, that the Divine Mystery is always more than anything we can know or say, then we Christians have to be much more careful about the way we use the adjective “only” – if we dare use that adjective at all. To announce to the world that God can only be understood as Triune, that God “saves” through only
... See morePaul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
I'm no longer religious, but I understand religion, even if I don’t believe in one. More so, as a storyteller, I understand faith, which includes religion, but it also counts many other ways of looking at the world around us. I’ve determined that faith provides a language for the unknown when we need it. It allows us to talk about the things we can
... See moreThe Loren Ipsum, by Daniel Herndon • On Being Indignant
It is prudent, methodologically, to hold back from too hasty a judgment on what is actually possible and what is not within the space-time universe.162 There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in post-Enlightenment philosophy, as those who have lived and worked in areas of the world less affected by Hume, Lessing and Troeltsch
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