
Christ the Key (Current Issues in Theology Book 7)

The inner life of God is the ministry of shared union. The Father ministers to the Son as the Son finds complete union with the Father in and through the Holy Spirit. We are made in this image; our being is hypostatic—we are persons whose being is in relation to others—and therefore always in need of a minister.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
In summary: several developments needed to take place within Christianity if it were to survive: 1) evil and darkness needed to be incorporated in a new way; 2) the feminine needed to be given more credence by Christianity, which in its historical form is patriarchal and masculinist; 3) the scriptures needed to be delit-eralised and read as metapho
... See moreDavid Tacey • The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion
with the doctrine of the incarnation, Christians get to have it both ways: God is certainly transcendent and utterly “other” than the universe, but in the person of Jesus Christ we believe in a human being who is also divine.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Humanity is negated in Christ, ordered beyond itself to reveal very God, and in revealing very God, the very human is also revealed. For what could be more human than to reveal God?