Quotes from Clark H. Pinnock

Atheism is partly the result of bad theology, an unpaid bill resulting from failures in depicting God. It is not surprising that many have rejected God when there has been so little to attract them to him. Perhaps they would not reject as readily the God disclosed in Jesus Christ, who is an event of loving relationally and relates readily to the temporal world.

One may be outside the church, but one can never be outside of God's love.

Scripture offers the unique access to the story of redemption and then, in turn, funds tradition, reason and experience, as God's Word is remembered, experienced, and thought about.

It is not enough to know what is written; we also need to grasp the significance of the Word.

The passion for love has to translate into passion for right relationships as well, which in turn leads to weeping and anguish. Therefore the Spirit does not mediate complacent love but chooses to be present in the midst of brokenness and distress.41

Theology always gets into trouble when its practitioners think they know what God is like apart from what revelation says God is like.

In the creeds common to East and West, references to the Spirit are brief and occasional, at times sounding even perfunctory. In liturgy, one will find many lines praising Father and Son, followed by a phrase "with the Holy Spirit" as a kind of afterthought. Our language is often revealing—the Spirit is a third person in a third place. At times the Spirit can even sound like an appendage to the doctrine of God and a shadowy, ghostly, poor relation of the Trinity.

We do not rightly understand the calling of Abraham unless we see in him the manifestation of God's world-wide purpose of grace.

More than churches full of people, God wants (and the world needs) people full of the Spirit. Let

With the mind we analyze data, while in the heart we wait for illumination on it.

By taking on our nature and becoming human, Jesus raised humanity to the level of the Son in relation to the Father. God has made us alive together with Christ and seated us with him in heavenly places (Eph 2:4-7).