“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.” — Andrew Davison Books 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… — Andrew Davison Hope 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… — Andrew Davison Life 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… — 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… — Andrew Davison Christian living 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… — Andrew Davison Christianity 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… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“The apologist can ask what literature and film reveal about the inchoate theological stirrings of our times.” — Andrew Davison Books 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… — 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… — Andrew Davison Christianity 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… — Andrew Davison Character 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… — Andrew Davison Religion Copy Share Image
“Atheism is certainly a terrible error, but it would be too easy simply to condemn it. It is necessary to examine why… — Andrew Davison Too easy Copy Share Image
“There is much more to apologetics than affirming the capacity of the Christian faith to make sense of things. Apologetics, we must… — Andrew Davison Christian faith Copy Share Image
“Virtue, whatever else it means, at least means being more human; it would not be virtuous if it did not. Sin, whatever… — Andrew Davison Character Copy Share Image
