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

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

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

Rightly known, God illumines all reality, all human experience, all revelation, and all religion

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

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 quotes: You cannot conclude that God, because Father, is therefore male.

You cannot conclude that God, because Father, is therefore male.

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

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 quotes: Christ is the unparalleled and unrepeatable Revealer through whom other revelations are best understood

Christ is the unparalleled and unrepeatable Revealer through whom other revelations are best understood

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

Human freedom is created by God with a capacity for responsiveness to God.

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

You will remain theologically uneducated until you study carefully Athanasius, Augustine and Aquinas.

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

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

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

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

Thomas C. Oden quotes: 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

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 quotes: The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity.

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

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

Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.

Thomas C. Oden quotes: 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).

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Christianity does not limit revelation to Christ, but through Christ sees God's revelation as occurring elsewhere and finally, echoing everywhere.

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

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

In the Godhead all historical inequalities are finally transcended.

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

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

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

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

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

The unmistakable miracle: there is a consensus.

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

No human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent.

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

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