15. https://www.facebook.com/TheBannerofTruth
John Calvin
話語職事
Sermons also serve as
excellent means of fostering
the congregation’s ability to
interpret culture, recognise
cultural hegemony, and
understand the way
particular cultural texts and
trends either contribute to
or hinder the realisation of
God’s rule on earth.
- Kevin Vanhoozer,
“Conclusion: Fifty-Five
Summary Theses on the Pastor
as Public Theologian”
16. … [Christian people] see theologians as interested
in making simple things difficult and complex, and
in exploring questions that have nothing to do with
life. But, putting it in homely imagery, theologians
are in fact the church's water engineers, plumbers,
and sewage specialists, whose job it is to ensure
that pure truth, fully fit to drink, is constantly
supplied, and that nothing which threatens spiritual
health gets absorbed unwittingly. Intellectual
garbage keeps fouling the springs of the church's
life, and no one who swallows its poison is likely
to stay healthy. So the church needs theologians to
detect and dispose of all such unedifying matter.
Theologians are the church's nutritionists, too. …
… Health requires a health-giving diet, and the
theologian's positive role is to see that such a diet is
provided.
J.I. Parker
話語職事
17. Fairy tales are more than
true: not because they tell
us that dragons exist, but
because they tell us that
dragons can be beaten.
- Neil Gaiman,
author of Coraline
潔淨條例不科學 祭祀意義很抽象?
18. Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children
fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the
child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already,
because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the
child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is
his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has
known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination.
What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the
dragon. Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms
him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless
terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies
in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe
more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.
— Tremendous Trifles XVII: "The Red Angel"
Neil Gaiman 的題詞是意譯自 G.K. Chesterton 文集的話
19. C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia
“Safe? Who said anything
about safe? Of course he
isn’t safe. But he’s good.
He’s the King, I tell you.”
— 上帝的神聖 —
Aslan is not a
Tame Lion