Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Orthodoxy is the wide open field within which successful breeding can take place. If one maintains that Jesus was an eater of magic mushrooms… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share
