“…the resurrection of Jesus offers itself, to the student of history or science no less than the Christian or the theologian, not as an odd event within the world as it is but as the utterly characteristic, prototypical, and foundational event within the world as it has begun to be. It is not an absurd [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Theology’
February 14, 2009
Mark Driscoll on Jesus
“There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types [want] to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a [...]
July 24, 2007
Stephen Dempster on Postmodernism
“The error of modernism is ‘objectivism’, that is, the idea that individual subjects can attain the entire, value-free, truth when examining an object — they can see it as it really is; while the error of postmodernism is ’subjectivism’, the idea that, because observers are never value-free or objective, they see the object according to [...]
June 28, 2007
N.T. Wright on Justice
“…those who follow Jesus are committed, as he taught us to pray, to God’s will being done ‘on earth as it is in heaven.’ And that means that God’s passion for justice must become ours, too. When Christians use their belief in Jesus as a way of escaping from that demand and challenge, they are [...]
June 28, 2007
N.T. Wright on Christianity
“…the Christian faith endorses the passion for justice which every human being knows, the longing to see things put to rights. And it claims that in Jesus, God himself has shared this passion and put it into effect, so that in the end all tears may be dried and the world may be filled with [...]
June 27, 2007
Donald Miller on Religion
“The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.”
– Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What, chapter 2
June 27, 2007
Donald Miller on Jesus
“I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists [...]
