Craig Keen Quotes

#1. ...theology waits as it works. It waits for its lungs again to be filled. Without the renewing breath of the Spirit it cannot speak.

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#2. The eucharist relativizes every leader.

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#3. Memory is for what is hoped; hope is for what is remembered.

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#4. There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church.

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#5. The theologian remembers for the sake of hope.

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#6. The forsakenness of the Son is the forsakenness of all who die...

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#7. Grace comes particularly where calculation has come to an end.

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#8. The passion of Jesus is lonely only as all our deaths are lonely. He is with us in the loneliness of death, too. And so, he and we are not alone even there. The same blow that strikes him dead, strikes us all dead, and it strikes us in the same way.

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#9. The thinking church is the acting church. Yet also the acting church is the thinking church.

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