Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
As the source, ground, and end of being and consciousness, God can be known as God only insofar as the mind rises from beings to being, and withdraws from the objects of consciousness toward the wellsprings of consciousness itself, and learns to see nature not as a closed system of material forces but in light of those ultimate ends that open the m
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
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
What we are called to be faithful to is not the words themselves, but the way those words are supposed to form or reform our lives.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
Bonhoeffer might have argued that a true theological conception of persons that creates a community of persons allows for a resonance that is encountered as the revelation of Jesus Christ.