"Jesus … is the final priest who makes all priesthood obsolete – not merely the performance of ritual sacrifice, but the office, pomp and circumstance of priestly authority and hierarchy itself. Instead of deferring to any caste of religious hierarchs, followers of the Way are thus now summoned to collectively be a "royal priesthood," a "chosen race" or "holy nation" built not upon offices of any kind but upon transferred allegiance to God's in-breaking "kingdom.""
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Ronald E. Osborn, Anarchy and Apocalypse : Essays on Faith, Violence, and Theodicy (2010), p. 35
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_God
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Kingdom of God
61 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Kingdom of God →
Related Quotes
"If the body yields to the claims of the spirit as it should, it is instrumental in bringing down the kingdom of heave…"
"By finding the kingdom of God within himself, and by the study of the laws of his own being, the mystic becomes profi…"
"Oh, the air is sultry and pregnant with lightning. And therefore we call to our deluded brothers: Repent, repent, the…"
"If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, …"
"The Kingdom of God comes by way of a listening heart."
"The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of…"
"The Gospel is concerned with the kingdom of God and only with the kingdom of God. The kingdom cannot, therefore, be e…"
"Right now, especially in the Middle East, things are shaping up quite nicely to blow us all to kingdom come. Except t…"
"This is by the decree of watchers, and the request is by the word of the holy ones, so that people living may know th…"
"A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingd…"