“[Roman] Catholic righteousness by good works is vastly preferable to a Protestant righteousness by good doctrine. At least righteousness by good works benefits one’s neighbor, whereas righteousness by good doctrine only produces lovelessness and pride.”
- Herman Bavinck
Herman Bavinck is my favorite theologian. I think this is my new favorite quote.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
The Dilemma of Belief in the World of Today
"Belief appears no longer as the bold but challenging leap out of the apparent all of our visible world and into the apparent void of the invisible and intangible; it looks much more like a demand to bind oneself to yesterday and to affirm it as eternally valid. "
- Pope Benedict XVI
This is is a great quote from a brilliant thinker as to why so many people today adopt a hermeneutics of suspicion. This is a difficult barrier for the minister of the gospel today.
- Pope Benedict XVI
This is is a great quote from a brilliant thinker as to why so many people today adopt a hermeneutics of suspicion. This is a difficult barrier for the minister of the gospel today.
Friday, May 9, 2008
What Hath Rome to do with Westminster?
"To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love"
Hans Urs von Balthasar
This is a beautiful summation of the tension of God's initiating grace and our authentic response to the gospel from a brilliant Roman Catholic theologian.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
This is a beautiful summation of the tension of God's initiating grace and our authentic response to the gospel from a brilliant Roman Catholic theologian.
Monday, May 5, 2008
your story
an open letter addressed to you
ruffled, broken, bent on the table
good news, bad news, you just don’t know
pregnant expectation attacks your stomach
the clock hand is now moving slowly
the paper in your hands is rough
the words are small
piercing your eyes with emotion
you taste excitement once again
paradise warped into wasteland
then stunned back into something beautiful
freedom strangled by the heat of idolatry
beauty, justice, relationships
the vandalization of shalom; the triumph of grace
from a garden-park to a holy city
This is your story
an open letter addressed to you
ruffled, broken, bent on the table
good news, bad news, you just don’t know
pregnant expectation attacks your stomach
the clock hand is now moving slowly
the paper in your hands is rough
the words are small
piercing your eyes with emotion
you taste excitement once again
paradise warped into wasteland
then stunned back into something beautiful
freedom strangled by the heat of idolatry
beauty, justice, relationships
the vandalization of shalom; the triumph of grace
from a garden-park to a holy city
This is your story
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