That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
Peter RollinsStichwörter: religion spirituality mysticism
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.
Peter RollinsStichwörter: religion spirituality mysticism
In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).
Peter RollinsStichwörter: theology
A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus has conquered death. Yet a faith that can look at the horror of the cross and still say ‘yes’ is one that says ‘no’ to the self in saying ‘yes’ to Christ.
Peter RollinsStichwörter: religion faith spirituality
Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the ‘truth’ with the purity of our interpretations. But orthodoxy, as believing in the right way, as bringing love to the world around us and within us … that will cost us everything. For to live by that sword, as we all know, is to die by it.
Peter RollinsStichwörter: christianity religion spirituality orthodoxy
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.
Peter RollinsLove is the crazy, mad, and perhaps ridiculous gesture of saying yes to life, of seeing it as worthy of our embrace and even worthy of our total sacrifice.
Peter RollinsStichwörter: love
Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.
Peter RollinsIn contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.
Peter RollinsStichwörter: love letting-go involved
This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,
Peter RollinsStichwörter: inspirational-life doubts emergent-church
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