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cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus' teaching and ministry, without any imperialist, kyriarchcal, hierarchical implications


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ALAN GARRETT The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the...
H. G. WELLS Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.
NAMSOON KANG D.C. is very cosmopolitan. Washington is very unusual for its size in terms of food offerings.
ED FLEISCHMAN The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that ...
NAMSOON KANG Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Ch...
NAMSOON KANG One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you ...
JOHN PIPER Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 2. the ministry of meekness ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can mak...
HOWARD GARDNER Jesus knew that all the commandments of the law of Moses rested on loving God and loving your neighb...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact be...
CLARK H. PINNOCK I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church withou...
ROWAN WILLIAMS Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
DAN BROWN The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, witho...
EUGENE A. NIDA It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hard...
VANCE HAVNER There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ now the question we must ask is...what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_...
NAMSOON KANG God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th...
AMIT RAY I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most es...
LEO BUSCAGLIA The politics of trans-identity seeks to move from the _politics of singular identity_ to the _politi...
NAMSOON KANG But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and lov...
NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom a...
NAWAL EL SAADAWI The love of God and Jesus Christ is far more blissful then any one night stand. God's love will last...
SAM COLLINS JR. Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through H...
J. B. PHILLIPS It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest ...
VANCE HAVNER Only in the latest of our Gospels, John, a Gospel that shows considerably more theological sophistic...
BART D. EHRMAN In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical ...
JURGEN MOLTMANN That appearance on earth as an individual is the crisis in the history both of Christ Himself and of...
C. HAROLD DODD Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrsw...
C. H. DODD Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 We see him exalting love...
SHERWOOD ELIOT WIRT We train students for entry job skills and many of the students actually have jobs while they are in...
BOB BRASSARD Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 The scandal of the Bible does not lie s...
E. S. HOSKYNS What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
HERBERT READ Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
DAVID NOVAK Without judgments life loses its hierarchical quality of being a choice between preferences and by l...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without...
MOTHER ANGELICA Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and...
PETER KROPOTKIN The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is ...
HAROLD B. LEE In the Lords prayer, the first petition is for daily bread; no one can worship God, or love his neig...
WOODROW WILSON I am a mirror to my neighbor, and in that mirror, he must see a reflection of Jesus. If that mirror ...
MOTHER ANGELICA I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking a...
POPE JOHN XXIII Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that ...
C.S. LEWIS To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we pu...
MOTHER TERESA The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for it...
JOHN LOCKE The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.- It has God for i...
JOHN LOCKE We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering witho...
BIBLE The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery withou...
BLAISE PASCAL Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appre...
C.S. LEWIS You Change , the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ.
DARIUSH YOUKHANEH We’ve lost the real Jesus—or at least exchanged him for a newer, safer, sanitized, ineffectual o...
JEFFERSON BETHKE The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants b...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was t...
KENNETH SCOTT LATOURETTE In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero...
GRAEME SIMSION The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123 A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that incl...
J. B. PHILLIPS Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don...
PHIL ROBERTSON Concluding a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus' good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God ha...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Lord, help us to choose humility over pride.
Help us to choose love over our reputation.
ANDRENA SAWYER This is a golden opportunity for us to show our Baptist distinctives of believing the Bible and lift...
BOBBY WELCH [The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dom...
BRENNAN MANNING In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his ...
WOODROW WILSON Believers become dull from repeatedly hearing. They will remain babes if they do not exercise and be...
HENRY HON May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing w...
JEREMY TAYLOR When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 After all, Brethren, ...
NATHANIEL J. BURTON Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test.
OLIVER THOMAS The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing ...
HENRY GIROUX Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental ...
MATT CHANDLER When your heart is gripped by the love of God poured out in the cross, and when you see the extent o...
COLIN S. SMITH God helps those who help themselves' is common sense, 'God helps those who cannot help themselves' i...
CRISS JAMI Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that t...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from ...
TALCOTT PARSONS To me, to whom God hath revealed his Son, in a Gospel, by a Church, there can be no way of salvation...
JOHN DONNE Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 God is often faulted for creating a world full...
GEORGE MALLONE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The secret of success in ministry is in spending time with Jesus
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN The radical failure in so-called religion is that its way is from man to God. Starting with man, it ...
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