I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able to learn something true about being human that we didn't know before. And yet the consequences of this… — James Alison Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding.” — James Alison Copy Share Image
Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able to learn… — James Alison Copy Share Image
The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological… — James Alison Copy Share Image
My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching… — James Alison Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a… — James Alison Copy Share Image
“And this is what it means to be able to see yourself as a sinner: far from “seeing yourself as a sinner” being some… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer. — James Alison Copy Share Image
Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that… — James Alison Copy Share Image
