Sublime

The great nineteenth-century theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher wrote to defend Christianity to his friends, whom he called “the great cultured despisers.”4 Their antagonism toward the church had become cultural (not spiritual; it was about an aesthetic of pleasure, not an encounter with the transcendent).5

But the imitative participation and cooperation of the martyrs in the agony of Christ must not be understood in this sense. They also make clear the connection between the sufferings of Christ and the sufferings of the final age, which pervade the whole of enslaved creation (Rom. 8.19). ‘Suffering in this cosmos is universal, because it is a suffer

But for Paul, the “although” is indeed the “because,” meaning God takes on the “although” action to justify “because” God is minister.

Wer sich für den Menschen einsetzt, tritt auch gegen die Mächtigen der Erde an. Für sie ist ein hoffnungsvolles Menschenbild rundherum bedrohlich. Staatsgefährdend. Autoritätsuntergrabend. Schließlich bedeutet es immer, dass wir keine egoistischen Tiere sind, die von oben herab kontrolliert, reguliert und dressiert werden müssen. Es könnte außerdem

It is the “although [x] not [y] but [z]” that makes justification central to Paul. It bears this form and plays this song; to put it simply, although [x] God is righteous, this righteousness does not [y] leave God to abandon us but [z] becomes sin for us so that God might minister to us (2 Cor. 5:21).

Since whites have been the most violent race on the planet, their theologians and preachers are not in a position to tell black people, or any other people for that matter, what they must do to be like Jesus. This is black common sense theology, which is deeply embedded in the radical side of black religious history and the source out of which blac

Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), the priest and humanist scholar who, as early as 1516, began preaching against clerical abuses, and whose sermons ‘from true, divine scripture’, starting in 1520, inaugurated a popular movement in Switzerland against such practices as priestly celibacy and the keeping of fasts.

C’est aux chrétiens qu’il revint de sélectionner dans le code moral juif des morceaux de choix pour les transformer en commandements universels et les propager à travers le monde. En vérité, le christianisme s’est précisément scindé du judaïsme à ce propos. Alors que beaucoup de Juifs croient, aujourd’hui encore, que le « peuple élu » est plus proc

First: his pure philosophy, particularly his theory of time; Second: his philosophy of history, as developed in The City of God; Third: his theory of salvation, as propounded against the Pelagians.