Justo L. Gonzalez Quotes

#1. A person wearing tinted glasses can avoid the conclusion that the entire world is tinted only by being conscious of the glasses themselves.

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#2. The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church.

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#3. The Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world.

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#4. History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian.

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#5. The notion that we read the New Testament exactly as the early Christians did, without any weight of tradition coloring our interpretation, is an illusion. It is also a dangerous illusion, for it tends to absolutize our interpretation, confusing it with the Word of God.

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#6. It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.

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