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Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

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To know God's name is to know God.

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Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name.

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God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.

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God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

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The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God's creatures is not clear.

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To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

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Christian nonviolence must be embodied in a community that is an alternative to the world's violence.

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Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

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'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: July 24th, 1940

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