“One of the odd features of the Christian life, and Scripture more broadly, is that times of suffering and sin can be renarrated in our ongoing progress as God’s people such that failures become a source of joy and thanksgiving… — Gary M. Burge Copy Share Image
“When we imagine Jesus’ teaching in his own time and place, W ca we cannot use profiles of teachers from our own world to understand the nature of his work. Our culture is heir to the Greek tradition, where abstract reasoning and verbal prowess are the measure of the teacher. Jesus’ world was different. He communicated through word pictures, dramatic… — Gary M. Burge Copy Share
“One of the odd features of the Christian life, and Scripture more broadly, is that times of suffering and sin can be renarrated in… — Gary M. Burge Copy Share Image
“Here is how Basil of Caesarea puts it: “When the Lord taught us the doctrine of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, . . . He blessed us with the knowledge given us by faith, by means of holy Names.”9 In other words: The one name of the one God is the threefold name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So,… — Gary M. Burge Copy Share
“Mary Daly so provocatively noted the incipient nature of this danger when she exclaimed: “If God is male, then the male is God.”7” — Gary M. Burge Copy Share Image
“That is why we began with a discussion on how to speak of God properly. Throughout our discussion we have seen that the witness… — Gary M. Burge Copy Share Image
“The theologian Karl Barth spoke of religion as humanity’s faulty attempts to try to understand God on their own, while Jesus Christ is God’s… — Gary M. Burge Copy Share Image
“It is possible to be outside God’s revealed will—by oppressing the poor, for instance, or rejecting the authority of Scripture—but we cannot, by definition,… — Gary M. Burge Copy Share Image
“Evangelicals tend to be “crucicentric,” which means “centered on the cross.” And we fail to see the comprehensive nature of Christ’s work. As the… — Gary M. Burge Copy Share Image
