Sublime

The Christian faith is kaleidoscopic, and most of us are color-blind. It is multidimensional, and most of us manage to hold at most two dimensions in our heads at any one time. It is symphonic, and we can just about whistle one of the tunes.

a viable postmodern Christian faith may appropriate forms of Christianity that existed before the split between “the natural” and “the supernatural.”

I heard John Stott say that some people had been talking about “the irreducible minimum gospel.” He dismissed such an idea. “Who wants an irreducible minimum gospel?” he asked. “I want the full, biblical gospel.”

Yannaras asserts that to understand God is to never see God as an atomistic being. To do so will lead us to assume that God uses relationships for instrumental ends. Rather, starting with the contemplation of the Trinity, Yannaras reveals that this overconcern with epistemology not only has turned our relationships into instruments but has hampered

The household of ministry will raise its voice when those in the world are kept from experiencing rest and peace. It is not ideology that should motivate this household of ministry but the spotting of inhumanity, seen concretely as a person’s inability to discover, in rest, his or her humanity.

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

He begins to introduce us to the great kingdom paradox: at the end of me, I find real life in him.