Timothy Radcliffe Quotes
- All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.
- At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
- Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than…
- Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
- Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come…
- Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made…
- I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.
- Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
- Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
- One of our deepest needs is to be at home.
- Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we…
- Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
- Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
- The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until…
- The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.
- The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.
- The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.
- The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
- What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage…
- To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.