I Don’t Believe In Universalism, But I

A Free Theologian Works In Communication With Other Theologians...he Waits For Them And Asks Them To Wait For Him. Our Sadly Lacking Yet Indispensable Theological Co-operation Depends Directly Or Indirectly On Whether Or Not We Are Wiling To Wait For One Another, Perhaps Lamenting, Yet Smiling With Tears In Our Eyes.

That The Zeal For God's Honor Is Also A Dangerous Passion, That The Christian Must Bring With Him The Courage To Swim Against The Tide Instead Of With It... Accept A Good Deal Of Loneliness, Will Perhaps Be Nowhere So Clear And Palpable As In The Church, Where He Would So Much Like Things To Be Different. Yet He Cannot And He Will Not Refuse To Take This Risk And Pay This Price... He Belongs Where The Reformation Of The Church Is Underway Or Will Again Be Underway.

We Must Hold The Bible In One Hand And The Newspaper In The Other.

We Must Read The Bible Through The Eyes Of Shipwrecked People For Whom Everything Has Gone Overboard.

I Had To Show That The Bible Dealt With An Encounter Between God And Man. I Thought Only Of The Apartness Of God. What I Had To Learn After That Was The Togetherness Of Man And God - A Union Of Two Totally Different Kinds Of Beings.