The Crucified God: 40th Anniversary Edition
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
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In Judaism, faith is not acceptance but protest, against the world that is, in the name of the world that is not yet but ought to be.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
The only way to live in this painful existence is through faith. But to Kierkegaard, faith is not a mental conviction about doctrine, nor positive religious feelings, but a passionate commitment to God in the face of uncertainty. Faith is a risk (the "leap of faith"), an adventure that requires the denial of oneself. To choose faith is wh
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