Sublime

A congregation that carries children, as Meredith’s does, is a life-community, a community not hunting resources but encountering resonance. This congregation’s life is not in its innovation but in its encounter with the concrete others whom it ministers to and is ministered by.

But from the context of ministry (as a hypostatic and kenotic reality that brings forth theosis) there can be no separation between the work and person of Jesus. Work, for Jesus, is to minister to humanity by being a minister (the “although” is the “because”).

Theology mattered greatly in the substantive moral systems the church once offered. We needed to think deeply about what certain practices do to us, both in time and in eternity. We needed to be concerned about which forms, virtues, and character traits draw us near to the divine or toward damnation.

to trust

Christian theology must be theology of the cross, if it is to be identified as Christian theology through Christ. But the theology of the cross is a critical and liberating theory of God and man. Christian life is a form of practice which consists in following the crucified Christ, and it changes both man himself and the circumstances in which he l

attempting to keep the devotional and the critical together in one interpretative process: