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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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Famous Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

“So what if God made a "mistake"; if the Someone who set up the world so that evil is possible is willing to commit suicide over that mistake rather than blame you for it, then trusting such a person doesn't seem like an altogether bad idea.”

Evil Mistake Trust Suicide

Book:Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

Source: Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

“What God effects in the reconciliation does the work of forgetting without the danger of forgetting. He does better than forget: he remembers our evil in grace as the only read thing it ever could have been. He takes away the flaming sword between us and our self-knowledge, and brings us home to ourselves.”

Remember Evil Forget Grace Good Reconciliation

Book:Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

Source: Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

“There is indeed no horror, no wickedness, no evil - no cruelty, no torture, no holocaust in the whole history of the world - that is not, under the sovereignty of grace, already reconciled in Jesus. And there is no perpetrator of any horror, wickedness, evil, et cetera (up to and including Hitler and your dreadful brother-in-law) who is not, in Jesus, forgiven. That is the Gospel, the Good News, without which we are all obviously dead ducks. But it is also, from where we sit, the most outrageous piece of bad news the world has ever heard because it says quite clearly that, on the basis of anything we can know or feel about the goodness of creation, God is bad.”

Evil Grace Creation Goodness Gospel

Book:Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

Source: Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

“If our Fall was our re-cognition, our re-knowing of the good as evil, then our Reconciliation is our re-cognition in Christ - our re-knowing in the risen humanity of the Word - of evil as the good he has made it once more.”

Evil Christ Good Recognition Reconciliation

Book:Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

Source: Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

“If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover.”

Ifs Problem Hands Seems Pain Suffering Evil Creation Lovers Appreciate Contrary Dirty Going Away Theologian Compulsion Bothered Showing Up Problem Of Evil

Book:The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books

Source: The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books