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“...in the human being, Jesus of Nazareth, we encounter humanity as we should be, and in that humanity we discover our true selves.”

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Book:The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

Source: The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“The violence ascribed to God, or commanded by God in the Bible, is, for many people, an ethical conundrum. Indeed, for some it reveals why Christianity is morally indefensible.”

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Book:Finding God

Source: Finding God

“Christ came to help shift our distorted perceptions of God.”

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Book:Finding God

Source: Finding God

“When christianity becomes a code of morality, an ethic of “right or wrong,” then you can be sure that we have ceased following Jesus faithfully, have abandoned relationship with God and each other, and have begun the futile search for “the ghost of perfection.”

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Book:The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

Source: The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“...in a world defined by productivity and success, a reality we created, humanity find themselves defined and valued in the very same way. People are part of a seemingly never-ending system whereby their worth is determined by their usefulness or success; they have become “a thing among things” struggling to give meaning to their existence.”

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Book:The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

Source: The Ghost of Perfection: Searching for Humanity

“The gospel revelation is that God becomes the victim of the crowd, exposing the violence of the crowd, and the potential for its will to become murderous. This mob’s will is opposed to the will of God, whose cruciform revealed will is one of forgiveness.”

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Book:Finding God

Source: Finding God

“The gospel is the declaration that love has entered into the fullness of our violence, fear, and horror in the Person of Jesus; love is the cosmic cure to the totality of death, not simply a soothing word when we are trembling, but the promise that one day all will be well.”

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Book:Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World

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