Sublime

Is there some logic uniting these three categories of human, Christ, and image? Yes, and Percy and O’Connor help articulate it: They share a logic of what I call amphibiousness. Christ is human-divine, the human is animal-spirit, and the image is visible-invisible. Fidelity to the dual natures of these amphibians requires certain forms of iconoclas

What humans are thought to image – God, the trinity, or the Word – determines in great part whether theologians focus primarily on human nature in and of itself as the image of God.

This ideal of eternity—which can take many different forms—is the common denominator for what I call religious forms of faith.

the very way Paul’s contention and Secular 3 collide breaks open a way for us to imagine “in Christ” as a transcendent (mystical) union even in our time.

Second, the congregation must be busy in its message, helping busy people find the resources they need to get more fullness out of their busyness.

Augustine is our contemporary. He has directly and indirectly shaped the way we understand our pursuits, the call to authenticity.

a "low" ecclesiology, a mere individualism with saved individuals getting together from time to time for mutual benefit, were to turn out to be a denial of some of the key elements of Paul's missionary theology?

But this desire for advance, like the pointed arch in architecture, was for a different moral horizon than just a drive for the new—it sought to build a space where time and eternity could cohabitate.