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I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

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I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

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I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

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Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

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Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

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I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.

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I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

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When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

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Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: July 24th, 1940

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