“David McCullough has said, “We are shaped by those we never met.” — Stephen J. Nichols David mccullough Copy Share Image
“The God-man who is humiliated is the stumbling block to the pious human being and to the human being, period.” — Stephen J. Nichols God Copy Share Image
“It would be safe to say that by the nineteenth century, pietism had long since dislodged Puritanism as the dominant force in… — Stephen J. Nichols Life Copy Share Image
“Leaning on Augustine’s insight, Bonhoeffer sees the sanctorum communio as “the community of loving persons who, touched by God’s Spirit, radiate love… — Stephen J. Nichols Love Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is equally underrated and under-practiced. It too requires humility to say “thank you.” Saying “thank you” means one is dependent on… — Stephen J. Nichols Gratitude Copy Share Image
“A congregation that does not pray for the ministry of its pastor,” Bonhoeffer warns, “is no longer a congregation.”11 He then adds, “A… — Stephen J. Nichols Congregation Copy Share Image
“Bonhoeffer and Luther draw on Christ’s paradox of gaining one’s life by losing it. So we come to the ultimate paradox: by… — Stephen J. Nichols Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The church is the real thing when it is not consumed with the assertion of power in culture, but it is driven… — Stephen J. Nichols Service to others Copy Share Image
“We are also brought into the church-community as a result of Christ’s death on the cross—a community of the forgiven, who should… — Stephen J. Nichols Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“We could summarize all of this background to Bonhoeffer’s christology in one sentence, albeit a complex one: The cross was a stumbling… — Stephen J. Nichols Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The ethics of the Sermon on the Mount are nothing less than extraordinary. To look at them as something that can be… — Stephen J. Nichols Life Copy Share Image
“I offer this succinct synopsis of Bonhoeffer on the Christian life: We live in love by grace as the church-community—in, through, and… — Stephen J. Nichols Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“If this earth was good enough for the man Jesus Christ, if such a man as Jesus lived, then, and only then,… — Stephen J. Nichols Good enough Copy Share Image
“His ecclesiology, though, is never an independent topic. It always flows from and back to Christ and his christology. Neither is Bonhoeffer… — Stephen J. Nichols Religion Copy Share Image
“We seem especially susceptible to this pitting of spirituality against theology in American evangelical contexts. Perhaps we can chalk this up to… — Stephen J. Nichols Religion Copy Share Image
“This poem, “Stations on the Road to Freedom,” echoes the Christ-centered or christotelic emphasis we have come to see in so much… — Stephen J. Nichols Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Everything in the prior chapters has been leading us up to this point. Our look at his christology (chap. 2) and ecclesiology (chap.… — Stephen J. Nichols Bible Copy Share Image
“What theological conservatives need to guard against, though, is thinking that because we affirm the Bible to be God’s inerrant and authoritative… — Stephen J. Nichols Bible Copy Share Image
