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:"With the universe divided and its secularly conceived component dominating our daily life, the transcendent begins to elude us, and the world begins to drown in a sea of literalism. In the ultimate banality of the secular world, “what you see is what you get.” Time becomes chronology, and history triumphs over all. True eschatology, the moment-by-moment in-breaking of the Kingdom of God, ceases to have a place within the Christian world. Scripture becomes lost in a constant battle between opposing camps of literalists—those who believe literal history negates the Bible and those who believe the Bible is literal history." -- Fr. Stephen Freeman, Everywhere Present, pp11-12. | :"With the universe divided and its secularly conceived component dominating our daily life, the transcendent begins to elude us, and the world begins to drown in a sea of literalism. In the ultimate banality of the secular world, “what you see is what you get.” Time becomes chronology, and history triumphs over all. True eschatology, the moment-by-moment in-breaking of the Kingdom of God, ceases to have a place within the Christian world. Scripture becomes lost in a constant battle between opposing camps of literalists—those who believe literal history negates the Bible and those who believe the Bible is literal history." -- Fr. Stephen Freeman, Everywhere Present, pp11-12. | ||
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:"It would seem to me that anyone who comes from a sacramental tradition should feel a certain cognitive dissonance with the sounds and images of secularized thought. For the God who took flesh and dwelt among us is surely the same God who continues to take common things like bread and wine, oil and water, as well as men and women, and make of them the instruments of His presence among us. For He is indeed everywhere present and filling all things." -- Fr. Stephen Freeman, Everywhere Present, p12 | :"It would seem to me that anyone who comes from a sacramental tradition should feel a certain cognitive dissonance with the sounds and images of secularized thought. For the God who took flesh and dwelt among us is surely the same God who continues to take common things like bread and wine, oil and water, as well as men and women, and make of them the instruments of His presence among us. For He is indeed everywhere present and filling all things." -- Fr. Stephen Freeman, Everywhere Present, p12 | ||
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:"The Jews certainly held a belief that God worked in history, but the marriage of heaven and earth was more than they expected - even from a messiah. Thus when Christ appears to His disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he asks them for something to eat. It is proof to them that in His resurrection He is not a ghost. The resurrection of Christ is not an example of life after death, but of the destruction of death itself: 'Christ is risen from the dead,/ trampling down death by death,/ and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.'" -- ffff, p16 | :"The Jews certainly held a belief that God worked in history, but the marriage of heaven and earth was more than they expected - even from a messiah. Thus when Christ appears to His disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he asks them for something to eat. It is proof to them that in His resurrection He is not a ghost. The resurrection of Christ is not an example of life after death, but of the destruction of death itself: 'Christ is risen from the dead,/ trampling down death by death,/ and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.'" -- ffff, p16 | ||
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:"Our salvation is not an external matter in which we receive permission from God to spend eternity in a special place called heaven... The arena in which we work out our salvation is nothing other than the world in which we live - which is permeated and sustained by the presence of God, and where we ourselves are 'surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.'" -- ffff, p17 | :"Our salvation is not an external matter in which we receive permission from God to spend eternity in a special place called heaven... The arena in which we work out our salvation is nothing other than the world in which we live - which is permeated and sustained by the presence of God, and where we ourselves are 'surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.'" -- ffff, p17 | ||
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| + | :"My success or failure in my spiritual life is not my private business, but the concern of a great cloud of witnesses." -- ffff, p17 | ||
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| + | :"Every prayer we ourselves offer is a participation in the life of the world. We have a participation in the great cloud of witnesses, but we also have a participation in everyone who is." -- ffff, p17 | ||
Latest revision as of 16:39, 19 March 2017
- "With the universe divided and its secularly conceived component dominating our daily life, the transcendent begins to elude us, and the world begins to drown in a sea of literalism. In the ultimate banality of the secular world, “what you see is what you get.” Time becomes chronology, and history triumphs over all. True eschatology, the moment-by-moment in-breaking of the Kingdom of God, ceases to have a place within the Christian world. Scripture becomes lost in a constant battle between opposing camps of literalists—those who believe literal history negates the Bible and those who believe the Bible is literal history." -- Fr. Stephen Freeman, Everywhere Present, pp11-12.
- "It would seem to me that anyone who comes from a sacramental tradition should feel a certain cognitive dissonance with the sounds and images of secularized thought. For the God who took flesh and dwelt among us is surely the same God who continues to take common things like bread and wine, oil and water, as well as men and women, and make of them the instruments of His presence among us. For He is indeed everywhere present and filling all things." -- Fr. Stephen Freeman, Everywhere Present, p12
- "The Jews certainly held a belief that God worked in history, but the marriage of heaven and earth was more than they expected - even from a messiah. Thus when Christ appears to His disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he asks them for something to eat. It is proof to them that in His resurrection He is not a ghost. The resurrection of Christ is not an example of life after death, but of the destruction of death itself: 'Christ is risen from the dead,/ trampling down death by death,/ and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.'" -- ffff, p16
- "Our salvation is not an external matter in which we receive permission from God to spend eternity in a special place called heaven... The arena in which we work out our salvation is nothing other than the world in which we live - which is permeated and sustained by the presence of God, and where we ourselves are 'surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.'" -- ffff, p17
- "My success or failure in my spiritual life is not my private business, but the concern of a great cloud of witnesses." -- ffff, p17
- "Every prayer we ourselves offer is a participation in the life of the world. We have a participation in the great cloud of witnesses, but we also have a participation in everyone who is." -- ffff, p17
