Argument Quote by Peter Rollins

“The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.”

Peter Rollins

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“What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.”

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Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

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I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

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“playing at the entrance of the hut. “Whose children are these?” he asked.”

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“For just as one person’s idol is another’s icon, so one person’s fable is another’s parable.”

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