“The Song [of Solomon] captures the ecstatic aspect of love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.” — Ellen F. Davis Bible Copy Share Image
“Worship is a vigorous act of reordering our desires in the light of God's burning desire for the wellness of all creation.” — Ellen F. Davis Burning desire Copy Share Image
“...consider how [the Proverbs] define success: the establishment of righteousness, justice and equity.” — Ellen F. Davis Define success Copy Share Image
“The fourth-century Greek theologian St. John Chrysostom said that Job's greatest trial was that his wife was not taken.” — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“If God has a best friend (and why not?), then surely it is Moses.” — Ellen F. Davis Best friend Copy Share Image
“The resurrection produces a “conversion of the imagination” that causes us to understand everything else differently.” — Ellen F. Davis Communication Copy Share Image
“Whenever we pick up the Bible, read it, put it down, and say, “That’s just what I thought,” we are probably in… — Ellen F. Davis Bible Copy Share Image
“The very idea of wisdom, as the Bible understands it, challenges the mind-set of our society and the view of knowledge that… — Ellen F. Davis Bible Copy Share Image
“...Job rails against God, not as a skeptic, not as a stranger to God's justice, but precisely as a believer. It is… — Ellen F. Davis Dreams Copy Share Image
“Contrition means finding the courage to let your heart break over sin. Willfully letting your heart break and then offering the pieces… — Ellen F. Davis Contrition Copy Share Image
“Proclaiming resurrection turns the world upside down (cf. Acts 17:1-9) and holds out to the poor and lowly the hope of being… — Ellen F. Davis Hope Copy Share Image
“What gives a liturgy its plot? A liturgy is always a sort of drama, that is, an intentional sequence of events, however… — Ellen F. Davis Liturgy Copy Share Image
“The sufferer who keeps looking for God has, in the end, privileged knowledge. ... She passes through a door that only pain… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“God accommodates [Moses'] complaints and makes in-course corrections. God does not take a human being so fully into the divine confidence--you might… — Ellen F. Davis Confidence Copy Share Image
“The Garden of Eden was the place where the first human creatures might have acquired wisdom: Eden was the place for total… — Ellen F. Davis Becoming wise Copy Share Image
“And there we recognize that our frailty is not meant to cause us anxiety and sorrow. Rather, God means it to be… — Ellen F. Davis Certainty of death Copy Share Image
“But 'true wisdom is such that no evil use can ever be made of it.' That is worth our pondering because we,… — Ellen F. Davis Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Scriptural interpretation is properly an ecclesial activity whose goal is to participate in the reality of which the text speaks by bending… — Ellen F. Davis Bible Copy Share Image
“For us the true measure of our wisdom will never be the grade point average we covet, a degree or rank, the… — Ellen F. Davis Books Copy Share Image
“...our role as comforters is not to solve the problem of pain; even less is it to stick up for God. Trying… — Ellen F. Davis Pain Copy Share Image
“That the Old Testament represents God chiefly as angry Judge and vicious Warrior is a false stereotype. While these images are not… — Ellen F. Davis Bible Copy Share Image
“The problem was acutely described in 1909 in a penetrating essay by Adolf Schlatter: According to the sceptical position, it is true… — Ellen F. Davis History Copy Share Image
“At this point it may be helpful to remember the distinction that the narratologist Gérard Genette makes between story and narrative.46 A… — Ellen F. Davis Bible Copy Share Image
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