“Faith is not a meritorious cause of election, but it is constantly attested as the sole condition of salvation. Faith merely receives the merit of atoning grace, instead of asserting its own merit. God places the life-death option before each… — 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 to responsive hearing. Grace flows ordinarily from prevenient grace through the grace of baptism through the grace of justification toward sanctifying grace leading toward consummation in glory. The power by which one cooperates with grace is… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share
“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
