Alister E. McGrath Quotes

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• Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to…
• To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a…
• Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the…
• The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology of the future. Similar ideas…
• Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this…
• The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value -…
• Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
• Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.
• All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.
• The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that…
• We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.
• The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols…
• When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,
• We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.
• Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied…
• Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples…
• The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature,…
• For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.
• The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about…
• One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

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