“With such questions as these, we perhaps approach a critical parting of the ways, a point at which our two pictures of God diverge dramatically. In part because they regard justice and mercy as distinct attributes of God, the Augustinians… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God’s mercy will eventually reach those who have stumbled—sets… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power of the cross is not the power of the sword; it is the transforming power of love. And the Christian message in its purity is not a message of fear, but of hope and love, the very love… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“Even the Augustinians, I would note, seem prepared to acknowledge this much: because God has forgiven us and has commanded us to forgive others, we have an obligation to forgive; we have no right, that is, not to forgive. But why , I would ask of them, has God commanded us to forgive others? Is it not precisely because, given… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“With such questions as these, we perhaps approach a critical parting of the ways, a point at which our two pictures of God diverge… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Let no one persuade you that there is in Him a little darkness, because of something he has said which His creature interprets into… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Here is an example of what I mean. One of my professors was far more enlightened than I in his consistent opposition to racial… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“In his commentary on 1 John, however, Calvin saw more clearly than Packer did exactly where the issue must be joined. The issue is… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Some will no doubt balk at the idea that perfect justice in a theistic universe would lay so many requirements, however self-imposed, upon God… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Now I have no doubt that, more often than not, a moral drawn from history lies in the eye of the beholder. But the… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“For insofar as fear of eternal damnation and the power of excommunication, backed by the coercive power of the state, had become the Emperor’s… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“As the Augustinians see it, God opposes sin enough to punish it, but not enough to destroy it altogether; instead of destroying sin altogether,… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
