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Hilton challenged this man to stay in his profession and to embrace “a third way, a mixed life combining the activity of Martha with the reflectiveness of Mary.” Hilton concluded that “such a spirituality needs to be consciously modeled and taught.”

that those who follow Schweitzer in placing Jesus within apocalyptic Jewish eschatology belong in a category distinct from those who do not;3 and that this category is where the real leading edge of contemporary Jesus-scholarship is to be found.

We might summarize these four major points like this: God, man, Christ, and response.

That’s when we might discover it’s the churches we’ve dismissed as weak and insignificant—the small, decentralized, anti-fragile networks of disciples found throughout the rest of the world—that courageously step forward like David to face the challenges of our time.

Complementarianism is patriarchy, and patriarchy is about power. Neither have ever been about Jesus.

Jesus justifies by giving us his person; he ministers to us by dying with us, so that having his person we might share in his resurrection. Justification gives us the gift of Jesus’s faith, that indeed the “although” is the “because.” So although we were dead in sin, we are alive because God is the minister who gives new life through the union of h

The expectation of the restored land has become focused on restored human beings. Jesus offered people ‘inheritance’, and greater possessions than they would have abandoned; but he regularly construed this in terms of human lives and human communities that were being renewed and restored through the coming of the kingdom.233 The pearl of great pric