Quotes by Peter Rollins
Peter Rollins (b. 1973) — Philosoph, Theologe und Autor · Radikale Theologie / Emerging Church · Nordirland
Peter Rollins (* 1973) ist ein nordirischer Philosoph, Theologe und Autor, der durch das Belfaster Kollektiv „Ikon“ und als Vordenker der Emerging-Church-Bewegung bekannt wurde. Er vertritt eine sogenannte „Pyrotheologie“, die christliche Mystik mit Dekonstruktion und Psychoanalyse verbindet, Zweifel ins Zentrum rückt und von konservativen Theologen wegen der Auflösung traditioneller Glaubens- und Heilslehren scharf kritisiert wird. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet sein Ansatz Impulse, biblische Texte jenseits dogmatischer Gewissheiten zu reflektieren und theologische Sinnkrisen als existentiellen Bestandteil des Glaubens zu betrachten.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Wisdom & Understanding, Church & Congregation, Doubt & Hard Questions, Meaning & Identity, Love, Guilt & Forgiveness, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Quotes by Peter Rollins
Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world.
Peter Rollins
Approaching the truth affirmed by Christianity as some abstract, objective assertion to be tested, simply demonstrates that the questioner is approaching this query as a problem to be pondered, dissected, and solved, rather than a mystery to inhabit and be transformed by.
Peter Rollins
Sinful activities are whatever we do with the goal of bringing us into proximity with that which we believe will fill the void in our existence.
Peter Rollins
For just as one person's idol is another's icon, so one person’s fable is another's parable.
Peter Rollins
The incoming of God as expressed in the incarnation represents a beautiful expression of this simultaneous revealing and withdrawal, for in the Incarnation the mystery of God is not dissipated but rather deepened. The mystery is not unmasked, but rather dwells with us, in our midst. The mystery is thus not overcome in the Incarnation but rather encountered there.
Peter Rollins
The event testified to within Christianity is evident in a life that has been freed from an idolatrous existence that turns us from the world to an iconic engagement with the world.
Peter Rollins
The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best.
Peter Rollins
Christianity is not brain surgery or rocket science, it is not quantum mechanics or nuclear physics; it is both infinitely easier and more difficult than all of these. The fragile flame of faith is fanned into life so simply: all we need do is sit still for a few moments, embrace the silence that engulfs us, and invite that flame to burn bright within us.
Peter Rollins
You are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither high church nor low church, Catholic nor Protestant, citizen nor alien, capitalist nor communist, gay nor straight, beautiful nor ugly, East nor West, theist nor atheist, Israel nor Palestine, American nor Iraqi, married nor divorced, uptown nor downtown, terrorist nor freedom fighter, for all are made one in Christ Jesus.
Peter Rollins
Our religious beliefs have not provided us what they seemed to promise.
Peter Rollins
In order to destroy the scapegoat mechanism, a different strategy must be adopted. Instead of trying to create a community where there is no outsider, the real answer lies in understanding that there is a sense in which we are all outsiders. In concrete terms, this means that a community faces its own lack, rather than ignoring it and thus creating a scapegoat who must carry it.
Peter Rollins
But the problem is that the fundamental structure of scapegoating is not broken in the acceptance of the latest 'other.' If the underlying scapegoat mechanism is not decommissioned, then new 'others' will always arise to protect the group from its own internal conflicts.
Peter Rollins
Paul understood that the prohibition (what he called 'the Law') was not the water that extinguished excessive desire, but a fuel that fed it. The problem for Paul was not desire as such, but rather its morphing into an obsessive/excessive impulse through the introduction of a law—a law that tempts us to act immorally precisely by demanding that we act morally.
Peter Rollins
Sources: goodreads.com, gatheringinlight.com, danieltutt.com, missioalliance.org
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