Quotes by Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler (b. 1980) — Historikerin, Duke-Professorin, Autorin · Evangelikal · USA

Kate Bowler ist eine kanadisch-amerikanische Religionshistorikerin und Professorin für die Geschichte des Christentums an der Duke Divinity School. Bekannt wurde sie durch ihre wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitung des nordamerikanischen Wohlstandsevangeliums sowie ihre theologische Kritik an toxischer Positivität und einfachen Erklärungen für Leid. Für Bibelleser bietet ihr Werk einen ehrlichen Zugang zu menschlicher Endlichkeit, Trauer und Zweifel jenseits oberflächlicher Erfolgsversprechen.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Meaning & Identity, Humility & Pride, Illness & Weakness, Fear & Anxiety, Time & Transience, Wisdom & Understanding, Service & Love of Neighbour

Quotes by Kate Bowler

Our lives are not problems to be solved. We can have meaning and beauty and love, but nothing even close to resolution.

Kate Bowler

I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy.

Kate Bowler

We all want our troubles to mean something, to have stature and be validated—but we gain nothing by pitting our woes against another's. Pain should unite us, as fellow sufferers, as fellow humans.

Kate Bowler

Control is a drug, and we are all hooked, whether or not we believe in the prosperity gospel's assurance that we can master the future with our words and attitudes.

Kate Bowler

God is here. We are loved. It is enough.

Kate Bowler

Life is a privilege, not a reward.

Kate Bowler

I must accept the world as it is, or break against the truth of it: my life is made of paper walls. And so is everyone else's.

Kate Bowler

It is an easy lie that has wormed its way into my mind: I am the center that must hold.

Kate Bowler

Life is so beautiful and life is so hard. For everyone.

Kate Bowler

So often we are defined by the troubles that we live with rather than the things we conquer. Any persistent suffering requires being afraid. But who can stay awake to fear for so long?

Kate Bowler

We are grass, murmur the scriptures. Our crowns are just flowers. We are here and then gone in a burst of wind.

Kate Bowler

You can't always be happy, but you can be joyful, anyway.

Kate Bowler

We live and we are loved and we are gone.

Kate Bowler

In a spiritual world in which healing is a divine right, illness is a symptom of unconfessed sin—a symptom of a lack of forgiveness, unfaithfulness, unexamined attitudes, or careless words. A suffering believer is a puzzle to be solved.

Kate Bowler

If you want progress, take up running. If you want meaning, run a church.

Kate Bowler

Fairness is one of the most compelling claims of the American Dream, a vision of success propelled by hard work, determination, and maybe the occasional pair of bootstraps.

Kate Bowler

Sources: wikipedia.org, duke.edu, katebowler.com

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