"The particular temptation of contemporary Christian communities is to tailor our beliefs so that they are socially re…"

"For the early Church, "church" and "world" were visibly distinct yet affirmed in faith to have one and the same lord.…"

"The church will be most effective where it abandons effectiveness and intelligence for the foolish weakness of the cr…"

"What was centrally new about Christ ... was His willingness to sacrifice, in the interest of non-resistant love, all …"

"It is often mistakenly held that the key concept of Jesus' ethic is the "Golden Rule": "do unto others as you would h…"

"A dichotomy between the religious and the social must be imported into the [New Testament]; it cannot be foun…"

"God speaks where his people gather and are free to be led. The marks of the validity of the conclusions they reach ar…"

"A minority may do for a society what the conscience does for an individual."

"If truth were left to a market philosophy, there would be no point in continuing to make an argument for which there …"

"Pre-Constantinian Christians had been pacifists, rejecting the violence of army and empire not only because they had …"