Thomas Oden quotes
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“The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.”
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“There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presense of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.”
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“Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural relativism, and self-assertive individualism. We remain resident aliens, OF the world but not profoundly in it, dining at the banquet table of waning modernity without a whisper of table grace. We all wear biblical name tags (Joseph, David, and Sarah), but have forgotten what our Christian names mean.”
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“Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.”
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Source : "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.
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“Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.”
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“I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.”
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“I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.”
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“Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.”
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