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To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

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From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

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A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

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'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.

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Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

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One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.

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Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

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We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

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The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.

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In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: July 24th, 1940

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