"Only God can join us to God, and so we must affirm that in the incarnation of the Son and actions of the Spirit God Himself is in our midst. Or rather, more wonderfully, we are in the midst of God, and the movement of relation among the three divine Persons, as it is unfolded.

"We may press theology's claim very bluntly by noting that theology, with whatever sophistication of lack thereof, claims to know the one God of all and so to know the one decisive fact about all things, so that theology must be either a universal and founding discipline or a.

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"The most dangerous and damnable heresy is treating Jesus like a means to an end—political mobilization, marketing a product, financial blessing, or whatever. It doesn’t matter what the “end” is or how theologically sophisticated one is in getting there. The way of Simon Magus.

"Christ is God come among us as gift, descending to us to defuse our desire to climb to the place of God." - William Cavanaugh.

"In my view, those of us who oppose Trump have two jobs: to resist and reform — to resist Trump and to reform the systems that cause Trumpism. The reform part is by far the most important mission, and the reforms should have one aim: to disrupt the caste system.".

“Those who are materially, spiritually, and humanly poor are not the focus of special attention because they are an economic, social, or pastoral problem, but because the loving God, poor among the poor, reserved for them a privileged place in Christ’s life and ministry.” -.

"The purpose of human conversation is not limited to pragmatic ends, as if we only spoke in order to learn new recipes and get salient tips on what stocks to invest in. A good conversation is always a discovery of the person who reveals himself in speech.".

RT @JLSteffaniak: Why. Creation is not in competition with God. Goodness isn't the reason our hearts are drawn to idolatry. We don't need….

In discussions of the catholicity of the church, it’s critical to remember that catholicity is not something we achieve but something we receive as a gift in Christ. The question of how to live together faithfully in light of that gift is also critical, but the tendency to throw.

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I’m not familiar with the longstanding discussion between Derek and Luke, but as a way of demonstrating the variety of views on this issue that exist within the Baptist tradition, I would point out that I actually agree with Derek on this point, which is why I, and the Baptist.

RT @mattleeanderson: A few hypotheses: . 1. Evangelicals are low-status, which means they often leave (become R.C.) when they enter high-st….

In my experience, the people most eager to share the Gospel are the ones who know their life in Jesus doesn’t depend on whether they do or not.

RT @NoContextBrits:

If you’re in a group complaining about those people and you have to ask, “Wait, what are we mad about again?” - that’s your cue to step back, clear your head, and perhaps reconsider why you’re even in that group. It's easy to adopt a group identity based on a grievance you don't.

What a sad life. And this is the kind of thing explicitly condemned by the prophets (see Isaiah 5:8).

“The increase in freedom that mankind owes to the martyrs is infinitely greater than the one that revolutionaries could obtain for it.” - Joseph Ratzinger

Excellent thread here. This was the takeaway from my doctoral dive into early Christian political theology.