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They will know us, not because we are heroes and power brokers, but much the opposite: they will know us because we are in the world as ministers, entering the death experiences of persons as the transcendent experience of love. Even against the pull of Secular 3 and the closed spin of the immanent frame, the age of authenticity leads to the strong
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
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Pete Davis • “A Counterculture of Commitment” Speech
Another way of saying this is that protest can be a compelling practice, but when it hardens into a full-blown “theology of protest,” it can render faith incoherent, or destructive, or both.90 What grounds theological protest and gives it life and coherence is precisely faith in God’s love and ultimate goodness.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
If Augustine spent half his life battling the heresy of Pelagianism—the pretension that the human will was sufficient to choose its good—it’s because he saw it as the great lie that left people enchained to their dissolute wills. And no one is more Pelagian than we moderns.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
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.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
But for the crucified Christ, the principle of fellowship is fellowship with those who are different, and solidarity with those who have become alien and have been made different. Its power is not friendship, the love for what is similar and beautiful (philia), but creative love for what is different, alien and ugly (agape). Its principle of justif
... See moreJurgen Moltmann • The Crucified God: 40th Anniversary Edition
Campbell says, “Pauline mysticism or union with Christ does not compromise the integrity of an individual’s personhood.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Faith is the experience of sharing in the person of Christ. If faith is fidelity and loyalty to a new realm, this realm is nothing more than the very person of Jesus himself. To be “in Christ” is not to be in a religious or clairvoyant state, but it is to be in the person of Jesus, given back your own person in a communion of other persons who are
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