Quotes from Timothy Radcliffe

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

La formación moral consiste en formar a la gente para ser lo bastante fuerte como para ponerse en pie y caminar.

Creo que el único modo de que prospere el cristianismo consiste en mantener viva una cultura cristiana vigorosa, segura de sí y llena de vida, pero en interacción dinámica con la cultura contemporánea.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.