Quotes about Context

This is not psychoanalysis. It is history.

Here again the creeds leave an ominous gap. They don't mention Israel at all.

My third note is that when we therefore use scripture in little bits, cut off from their proper context and made to dance to our tunes instead, all sorts of doubts can creep in, like weeds among the wheat.

This is part of the paradox of love, in which love freely given creates a context for love to be freely returned, and so on in a cycle where complete freedom and complete union do not cancel each other out but rather celebrate each other and make one another whole.

enjoined on all Jesus followers—takes place in the context of the initial victory won on the cross.

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. But

if everything is historically relative, then so is the idea of historicism itself.

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don't know the characters and can't make sense of the plot.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.