Perhaps in other religions the deities deal with evil through finger pointing, shouting matches, or even the silencing of a perpetrator. In Hosea, God not only looks upon evil - God takes evil on a honeymoon. How does God deal with evil? He puts a ring on it! -Swoboda #LPCTH600
“No matter how dark the river looks, how cold and frozen it becomes, in Christ there’s always the power of resurrection flowing in the secret below. We just have to learn how to see it. Never judge a river by it’s surface.” - A.J. Swoboda, #LPCTH600
“The people are the best contextualizers, and the role of the theologian is to function as a midwife to the people as they give birth to a theology that is truly rated in the culture and moment at history” - (Bevans, 2002) #LPCTH600
“ The role of the trained theologian...is that of articulating more clearly what the people are expressing more generally or vaguely deepening their ideas by providing them with the wealth of the Christian tradition...” - (Bevans, 2002) #LPCTH600
“A worldview (vision of life) is a framework or set a fundamental beliefs through which we view the world and our calling and future in it.” - (Sire, 2009) #LPCTH600