December 2010
10 posts
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“Passionate atheism assumes at least two different forms: the passions of...”
– Tomas Halik, Patience with God, pp. 103-104. This seems right and reasonable to me. It’s been my position for some time now. It seems to me, however, that both this and the traditional understanding of the state of non-Christians cannot be true at the same time. At the very least you cannot...
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“Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of...”
– Jaroslav Pelikan (via jrandomhermeneut)
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“It would be a reprehensible neglect if Christianity failed to use for its own...”
– Tomas Halik, Patience with God, p. xv.
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“I agree with atheists on many things, often on almost everything - except their...”
– Tomas Halik, Patience with God, p. ix.
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Elizabeth Johnson on ecological Christology:
Interview on the Homebrewed Christianity podcast
Article in America Magazine
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“A saint is one who has a strange nearness to God, and makes God real and near to...”
– Michael Ramsey, as quoted in Glory Descending: Michael Ramsey and His Writings, p xxi.
“[St John of the Cross] and Luther are, among the great writers of the Christian...”
– Rowan Williams, *The Wound of Knowledge”, p 189.
“The second presupposition of a fruitful discussion between them and me would...”
– Karl Barth, Letters 1961-1968, 7-8, as quoted by David W. Congdon
Full Homely Divinity →
Some excellent book recommendations and essays on Anglican spirituality here.