Quotes by Gregory A. Boyd

Gregory A. Boyd

[Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore “holy” wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.

Darkness

Light

War

Accommodation is a central aspect of the cross-centered interpretation of violent portraits of God that I’m advocating. Like everything else in Cross Vision, this concept is anchored in the cross. On the cross, God stoops to meet us, and to enter into solidarity with us, right where we are at, which is in bondage to sin and to Satan. And he does this to free us and to bring us where he wants us to be, which is united with him in Christ. The cross is thus the paradigmatic example of God mercifully stooping to accommodate people in their fallen conditioning.

People

Sin

Vision

Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.

Dark

Mother

Sides

America wasn’t founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn’t bloody and barbaric. That’s why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.

America

Christian

People

Another form of prayer, called cataphatic, honors and reverences images and feelings and goes through them to God. This form of prayer also has an ancient and well-attested history in the world of religions. Any sort of prayer that highlights the mediation of creation can be called cataphatic. So, praying before icons or images of saints; the mediation of sacraments and sacramentals; prayer out in creation – all these are cataphatic forms of prayer

Feelings

Icons

Prayer

I don’t want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What’s not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They’re the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.

Christian

Dream

Reality

I think our mental picture of God is the most important fact about our life. All other things being equal, the beauty of our life won’t outrun the beauty of our vision of God. Unfortunately, the God that many Christians envision is not completely Christ-like, but is rather influenced by the violent depictions of God in the Old Testament.

Christian

Thinking

Vision

I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

Book

Prayer

Reading

I’m sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I’m hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year, and 99.99 percent of them are not good. I see no reason to do a new play just because it’s new. It’s like kissing your sister, a virtue, but so what? It seems to me more worthwhile to take a proven playwright and say, Write something for us.

Kissing

Play

Writing

If we fully trust that God is as beautiful as he reveals himself to be on the cross, we must regard the ugly surface appearance of these portraits to reflect the sinful way his people imagined God, not the way God actually is. But when we by faith look through the ugly surface of these portraits, we can see God stooping out of love to meet his people where they are at and to bear their sin, which is why in Scripture he takes on an ugly surface appearance that reflects the ugliness of their sin.

Beautiful

People

Ugly

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Agents

Alternatives

America

And Love

Attitude

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Christian

Class

Dark

Darkness

Divine

Doe

Done

Dream

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Fighting

Forever

Heaven

Historical

Icons

Ifs

Inspiration

Jesus

Judging

Kissing

Law

Life

Light

Love

Love Is

Millions

Mother

People

Philosophical

Play

Prayer

Reading

Real

Reality

Rose

Scripture

Sides

Sin

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Thinking

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Quotes by Gregory A. Boyd

Gregory A. Boyd

[Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore “holy” wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.

Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.

America wasn’t founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn’t bloody and barbaric. That’s why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.

I don’t want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What’s not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They’re the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.

I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

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