“The famous injunction, normally attributed to Saint Francis, to ‘preach the gospel at all times; use words if necessary’, like many timeworn phrases, contains much that is true.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“The Church knows fully that its message is in harmony with the most secret desires of the human heart, when it champions the dignity… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“The Church is a living body; continuously active, continuously performing Christ in the myriad contexts within which it operates. It comprises those conformed to… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“he believed that all language, except for the most basic and elementary, was metaphorical, and even the highly desiccated metaphors are not verbal algebra.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“among the most important things to consider when it comes to gaining the skills of Christian living are things like discipline, physical actions, training… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Christianity does not displace scientific accounts of the world; rather, it lends them ontological depth and clarity, and in doing so, discloses a greater… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“We are given no escape from ultimate questions. In one way or another they are in us, whether we like it or not. Scientific… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“The apologist can ask what literature and film reveal about the inchoate theological stirrings of our times.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Doctrines, though useful, are the product of analytical dissection; they recast the original, equivocal, historical material into abstract, less fully realized categories of meaning.… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“The famous injunction, normally attributed to Saint Francis, to ‘preach the gospel at all times; use words if necessary’, like many timeworn phrases, contains… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Christian ethics makes sense of human life from a moral perspective, presenting us with a vision of what it means to be a flourishing… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“As an apologetic strategy, it only makes sense to meet people where they are. Where else, indeed, can they be met?” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“although apologetics is ‘a reasoned defence’, its basis is necessarily imaginative, for reason cannot work without imagination.” — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Take the Gospel parables: what are these stories, these narratives, if not powerful invitations to people to locate themselves within the situations of others,… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
