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Robert Farrar Capon was an American author known for his religious and literary criticism. His works are renowned for their profound insights and unique style, having a significant impact on contemporary literature and religious thought.

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“Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over - period.”

Source: The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History

“Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.”

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Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.”

Ends Christianity Announcements

Book:Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus

Source: Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus

“Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it's the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world's problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can't do a thing about the world's problems - that it never did work and it never will”

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Author:Robert Farrar Capon