Sublime

The pastor is not the one who saves people from any or all of the impingements. Rather, the pastor is the one who reminds the community that though God seems absent, nevertheless the God who is a minister arrives right here in the middle of such events of impingement, when things seem so hard.

We have made the bitterness of the cross, the revelation of God in the cross of Jesus Christ, tolerable to ourselves by learning to understand it as a necessity for the process of salvation . . . As a result the cross loses its arbitrary and incomprehensible character.[21]

Pour l’envisager, nous devons saisir ce que le modèle européen actuel doit au modèle allemand, loin des caricatures colportées par certains de nos leaders politiques. Il faut comprendre l’Allemagne pour comprendre l’UE. Pas l’Allemagne éternelle, mais l’Allemagne d’après 1945 qui est en grande partie son antithèse. Ce qu’on appelle fréquemment « l’

no longer content with the genre Theology of the New Testament, might yet practice “theology with the New Testament.”

The church once helped people live the good life in the present (whether multigenerational or generational, the present was long enough for the good life to have content and be open to mystery—to have response and responsibility). Now the good life is lived in the future, not the present.

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 group lacked a clear political direction and doctrine; indeed, the tone of discussions at this initial meeting was more socialist than classically liberal. In part because of Adenauer’s objections, the question of first principles was put aside, and the group simply settled on its name: the Christian Democratic Union.[12] The following month, A

Commenting on the relationship of scholasticism and mysticism in medieval Christian philosophy, Heidegger wrote, “Philosophy as a rationalistic structure, detached from life, is powerless; mysticism as irrational experience is aimless.”