"The Christian gospel has sometimes been made the tool of an imperialism, and of that we have to repent. But at its heart it is the denial of all imperialism, for at its center there is the cross where all imperialisms are humbled and we are invited to find the center of human unity in the One who was made nothing so that all might be one. The very heart of the biblical vision for the unity of humankind is that its center is not an imperial power but the slain Lamb." - Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
and the second quote won't make the quote generator, unfortunately, but is still worth sharing. it was my prof's response to a question related to the idea to the subjectivity of canonizing the Bible in the early church age, and even the subjectivity of intepreting the Bible, really asking how we know our tradition is right, and how can you really come to terms with some of these things...
My prof's response:
"It has been said that sausage and theology are two things you don't want to watch being made."
enjoy.
3 comments:
ha! sausage and theology! so good.
and leslie was a genius. the funny thing about that guy is that he wrote his stuff over 2 decades ago and we are only now starting to listen to him!!!!
some of "renegade" intellectual and profoundly spiritual missionaries of the 80's are now being used as primary voices in the postmodern church. two other gentlemen in the same camp are david bosh and vincent donavan.
sausage and theology....
Haha....I love it.....
Sausage and theology are two things i love.
yeah, phil... i really liked reading newbigin... i'll have to check out those other guys sometime too.
i love that newbigin's writing is driven by the fact that he was a missionary to asia for so long and then came back to england and was like, "what the hell happened here?" and began addressing the secularization of the Western world and the need for missional churches.
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