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It is not possible to use the just war tradition as a hermeneutical device for illuminating the New Testament, nor have the defenders of the tradition ordinarily even attempted to do so.

The temptation to project upon the figure of Jesus our own notions of the ideal religious personality is nearly irresistible.

All actions, however ostensibly spiritual, must meet the criterion of constructive impact on the church community.

As Yoder has persuasively suggested, the temptation to refuse the cup is precisely the temptation to resort to armed resistance.

The question that Luke-Acts puts to the church—then and now—is not "Are you reforming society?" but rather "Is the power of the resurrection at work among you?

one cannot become a follower of Jesus in this Gospel's narrative world without surrendering a position of privilege.

A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much rather orate than confide.

I elicit the submodalities of that just as we did in the inventory part of this book earlier. Stop now and think about something you no longer want to believe. Just like Myra, I want you to go through your list and find out first, where is the voice? Where is the picture?

Hence perhaps the most important contrast between the forces of evil and the army of the Lamb is the contrast between deceit and truth.

False worship, such as John portrays in the worship of the beast, is false precisely because its object is not the transcendent mystery, but only the mystification of something finite.

The alternative vision of the world which Revelation claims to be orientated to the truth is strongly theocentric

As well as their pervasive allusion to the Old Testament, the images of Revelation also echo mythological images from its contemporary world.

The point is not to predict a sequence of events. The point is to evoke and to explore the meaning of the divine judgment which is impending on the sinful world.

Thus Revelation seems to be an apocalyptic prophecy in the form of a circular letter to seven churches in the Roman province of Asia.

M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).

T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).

If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).

The ministry is another kind of business than too many excellent preachers take it to be.

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

el trabajo en equipo y la colaboración, ya sea interna o externa, es un componente vital en la creación de una compañía sana, así