“My truth cannot be mine alone. If I cannot in principle declare it to be truth for all . . . then it pitilessly ceases to be truth for me also.” Pannenberg, Systematic Theology, vol.1, 51.

“We astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature.” Kepler, “To Herwart,” March 26, 1598, in Baumgardt, Johannes Kepler, 44.

“Collaboration between theology and philosophy is necessary because philosophy alone cannot provide a basis for the understanding of the unity of the perception of meaning, the historical roots of intellectual life.” Pannenberg, Philosophy of Science and Theology, 13.

“The desire to be in God’s image without attaining Christ’s image is a desire for immediacy, which wants everything without detour and without self-actualization, a narcissistic desire of the ego to settle down in God, immortal and almighty, that doesn’t find it necessary ‘to let life be crucified’ and to experience the night of pain….

I agree with Marcel Sarot in that this is the best way to characterize the passibilist position: “(1) God’s feelings, or the quality of His inner life, can be influenced by the world, but only in a personal way, and not in a causal way. This means that God always remains Master of His own…

Today He who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the Cross. He who is King of the angels is arrayed in a crown of thorns. He who wraps the heaven in clouds is wrapped in the purple of mockery. He who in Jordan set Adam free receives blows upon His face. The…

We need to put on the WHOLE armor of God! The belt of truth w/o the breastplate of righteousness causes cognitive and spiritual dissonance, since it’s possible to speak of God’s truth w/o living in Christ’s righteousness. Obviously, if we have been wounded in spiritual warfare we can neither enjoy God’s peace nor be properly…

Sorry ladies, but if Jesus were with us today, he wouldn’t be the hot, grungy-looking musician you’d want to dance with at a nightclub. No, he’d be the homeless guy you stepped over to get to the nightclub.

Nietzsche called Christianity a ‘herd morality’, a ‘slave mentality’. I couldn’t agree more. Except, Christians are not shepherdless sheep. We have a Good Shepherd who willingly lays down his life for his sheep and has the power to take it up again. If this God is our Shepherd and we are his sheep, would we…

“Our minds must be set on: (1) Christ (Phil 2:5) (2) Humility (Rm 12:3, 16) (3) Discipline (2 Tm 1:7) (4) Excellent things (Phil 4:8) (5) Action (1 Pt 1:13) (6) Heavenly things (Col 3:1-2) The spiritual battle is won in the mind!”