Common morality can be explained without developing an elaborate theory; it is simply part of the structure of our human natures, who we are as God made us. Therefore, an ethic based upon the Golden Rule alone or a God-given moral sense is not truly virtuous in itself. This is so because a moral act done apart from a transcendent object – love for God and His beauty – is a false morality. It is impossible to have a divinely sanctioned morality if God is not the object of and motive for it.
— John Hannah, Kirchenhistoriker und Theologe
Topics: Wisdom & Understanding, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: For Reflection
John Hannah
John D. Hannah ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Kirchenhistoriker und Theologe, der über fünf Jahrzehnte lang als Professor für Historische Theologie am Dallas Theological Seminary lehrte. Geprägt von einer reformierten Theologie und der Erforschung des Puritanismus, erlangte er Bekanntheit durch strukturierte Übersichtswerke zur Kirchengeschichte sowie durch Beiträge zur Irrtumslosigkeit der Bibel. Für Bibelleser ordnet er theologische Entwicklungen und Auslegungsfragen sachlich in ihren kirchengeschichtlichen Kontext ein.
All quotes by John Hannah (18)
A drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.
Blaise Pascal
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
The devil is a better theologian than any of us, and he is still a devil.
A.W. Tozer
Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.
Craig Groeschel
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Tim Keller
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
C.S. Lewis
Martin Luther