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Gorman adds, “That conformity [to Christ], for Paul, is narrative in character, a two-part drama of suffering/death followed by resurrection/exaltation. Thus the narrative of the community in Christ must correspond to the narrative of its Lord.”27
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
When church becomes a club, parables become pedestrian.
Amy-Jill Levine • Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
tradition is the flow, the changing current, we, as Christians, live in.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Barth’s strategy was to find within biblical language itself a way to speak of God’s breaking into a modern world framed by immanence.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
YHWH wants their allegiance in action and in thought; this is the primary theme of Deuteronomy.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
the other portrayals were, in a phrase of Fergus Kerr, “unavoidable anthropomorphisms.” See Kerr, After Aquinas, 77;
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
We might summarize these four major points like this: God, man, Christ, and response.