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The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity. — Thomas C. Oden

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply. — Os Guinness

The good news is that the seeds of God's good news are planted already in every dying culture. — Thomas C. Oden

Glory seems to bestow herself like a whore on those least worthy. — Scott Oden

You've learned that pride if often the first victim of ambition — Scott Oden

Who will speak my name so I might taste eternity if no one knows i ever drew breath? — Scott Oden

Gregory of Nazianzus was amused by any who would insistently hold "God to be a male" which he regarded as a misplaced analogy. — Thomas C. Oden

It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote. — Scott Oden

You cannot conclude that God, because Father, is therefore male. — Thomas C. Oden

The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety. — Thomas Oden

It would be foolish, I think, to judge a whole people by the actions of a few vile souls. Foolish as well as misguiding. — Scott Oden

From beginning to end, the biblical story is the story of the creation of humanity, the fall of humanity, and the redemption of humanity. — Thomas C. Oden

Christ is the unparalleled and unrepeatable Revealer through whom other revelations are best understood — Thomas C. Oden

Human freedom is created by God with a capacity for responsiveness to God. — Thomas C. Oden

You will remain theologically uneducated until you study carefully Athanasius, Augustine and Aquinas. — Thomas C. Oden

Human personality is created with the restless yearning for communion with the unseen but present personal God (Augustine, Conf. 1.1). — Thomas C. Oden

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity. — Thomas C. Oden

Christian faith has gained confidence that God will not reveal himself in a way contrary to the way he has revealed himself in Jesus Christ — Thomas C. Oden

Rightly known, God illumines all reality, all human experience, all revelation, and all religion — Thomas C. Oden

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money, — Greg Oden

Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace. — Thomas C. Oden

There reigns in the broken human heart a feeling of discord, a lack of congruence between what is and what ought to be (Augustine, Conf. 5). — Thomas C. Oden

The Christ event did not in that sense CHANGE the will of God, but rather it more clearly expressed God's eternal will toward the whole of history. — Thomas C. Oden

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history — Greg Oden

Christianity does not limit revelation to Christ, but through Christ sees God's revelation as occurring elsewhere and finally, echoing everywhere. — Thomas C. Oden

In the Godhead all historical inequalities are finally transcended. — Thomas C. Oden

and the duck walked up to the lemonaide stand and said, "hey bum bum bum got any grapes? — Bryant Oden

Revelation is for human salvation, the mending of human brokenness (Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word 3). — Thomas C. Oden

Human reasoning is created by God with a capacity for reaching toward God by thinking, choosing, and speaking. — Thomas C. Oden

The unmistakable miracle: there is a consensus. — Thomas C. Oden

No human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent. — Thomas C. Oden

Human love is created with some capacity, however distorted, to love God and to love creatures through God. — Thomas C. Oden