“early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettable because classic Christianity has its pre-European roots in cultures that are far distant from Europe and that preceded the development of early modern European identity, and… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“God’s holiness without God’s love would be unbearable. God’s love without God’s holiness would be unjust. God’s wisdom found a way to bring them… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Into your hands, 0 Lord, we commit ourselves this day. Give to each one of us a watchful, a humble, and a diligent spirit… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom, then God… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“God's holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God's love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having a disposition… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The theater in which God has chosen to meet rational creatures quietly is the inward realm of conscience, moral reasoning, prayer, and study, especially… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Lord, inspire us to read your Scriptures and meditate upon them day and night. We beg you to give us real understanding of what… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“BECAUSE OF PIETY’S PENCHANT for taking itself too seriously, theology does well to nurture a modest, unguarded sense of comedy. Some droll sensibility is… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Experiential sanctification is an ongoing process of daily rededication, reconsecration, mortification, and vivification of the whole person to God. It calls for believers to… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
