Quotes from Elizabeth A. Johnson

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

That all species are related in the flow of life and death is a keystone of evolutionary theory. The grandeur displayed in this view of life is ecological in character.

Once one understands that the evolving community of life on Earth is God's beloved creation and its ruination an unspeakable sin, then deep affection shown in action on behalf of ecojustice becomes an indivisible part of one's life.

Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.

God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.

In theology, androcentrism ensures that ruling men will be the norm for language not only about human nature but also about God, sin and redemption, the church, and it's mission.

Those who die relearn or remember The secrets of life that they forgot at birth.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.