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This is a deep and far-reaching union in Paul’s mind because it is born at the very place where opposites collide. This collision of opposites becomes Paul’s hermeneutical understanding of the presence of Christ.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The pastor today still feels a sense of God’s calling, but the blurring of divine action and the fragility of belief keep the call from being a deep well that pastors can draw from for vocational identity and direction in ministry.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety,
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Yet when cultural deism is added to the moralistic and the therapeutic, faith formation becomes bastardized.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
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Augustine might make Christianity plausible again for those who’ve been burned—who suspect that the “Christianity” they’ve seen is just a cover for power plays and self-interest, or a tired moralism that seems angry all the time, or a version of middle-class comfort too often confused with the so-called American Dream.