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Well, I do think the one message of the book, the more hopeful message of the book, is that culture can do more than we give it credit for. And if a lot of the science fiction conversation, the utopian conversation, looks towards technology to usher us into the world of abundance, I think some of what you’re saying is that no, it’s going to have to be cultural change that allows us to live within abundance. It allows us to appreciate abundance.

But at the same time, again, advertising — and I know this for quite a fact — it’s usually pretty bad. It’s quite inefficient. It’s quite poorly done. It’s much more art than science. A lot of it is witchcraft.

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Sometimes they even injure their brain, and extinguish nature, or at least make it useless.

Yet these works are not the means of his justification before God, he does them out of disinterested love to the service of God; looking to no other end than to do what is well-pleasing to Him whom he desires to obey dutifully in all things.

the requirements of his own body a man cannot take his ease, but is compelled on its account to do many good works

For when the soul has been cleansed by faith and made to love God, it would have all things to be cleansed in like manner;

The truth is that the first Christians were Creedal Christians, not Bible Christians.

translating Christ’s truths into a language yet unknown

Bibles or catechisms?

But do not fool yourself into believing that reading the Bible is the first step on the road to deepening your faith

Scripture can stir our hearts to a great love for the Lord and give us the courage to live and defend the faith

They wrote it on their hearts, taught it to their children, recited it daily,

Bible Christians claim to live like the first Christians, but nowhere in the Bible do we find Christians carrying around Bibles the way Bible Christians do today.

8,000 distinct Protestant denominations

n this way, entire Christian communities were established and thrived without the need for Bibles. This indicates that having and reading the Bible was not essential to being Christian

Sacred text was never intended to teach doctrine, but only to prove it

From the beginning it has been not the Bible the Church has handed on to new Christians but the deposit of the faith.

"your desire shall be for your husband"

Luther supervised, although he did not entirely agree with, the writing of Melancthon's Augsburg Confession

continued the incessant writing which would fill the rest of his life.

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The two competing philosophic systems of the late Middle Ages—scholasticism (derived from the Aristotelianism of St. Thomas Aquinas) and nominalism (derived from the skepticism of William of Ockham and his successors)—both appear to have influenced Luther, particularly in their insistence on rigorous formal logic as the basis of philosophic and theological inquiry. From Ockhamism, Luther probably derived his awareness of the infinite remoteness and majesty of God and of the limitation of the human intellect in its efforts to apprehend that majesty.

Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences; and he read for the first time the works of St. Augustine.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound… I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.

According to this process, people first declare themselves to be followers of Christ, and then they assume that whatever they say or do merits the adjective ‘Christian.

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blissful” where we expect “blessed

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this view was “largely invisible to those who wrote the Christian scriptures

it requires us to look back through our history, as through a row of knitting gone awry, to identify the moment and place where we went wrong

his newfound realization about just how radical and otherworldly the early Christians were leaves Hart at odds also with another feature of the Protestant imagination, the affirmation of ordinary life, the view that normal work and family rather than renunciation and asceticism are proper holy pursuits.

His translation has already prompted John Milbank to declare that “Hart has shown, after five hundred years, that the core of Reformation theology is unbiblical.”

Rather I mean that most of us would find Christians truly cast in the New Testament mold fairly obnoxious: civically reprobate, ideologically unsound, economically destructive, politically irresponsible, socially discreditable, and really just a bit indecent.

whose activity for sustaining their lives cannot be called work.

contribute to the continual advance of science and technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural and moral level of the society within which he lives in community with those who belong to the same family.