Our only hope is to return to the God of the Scriptures and the truth that the center of all meaning in life is not ourselves but God. God is the center of the universe and the essence of all wisdom and all truth. The purpose of life derives from God’s desire to see His own glory and behold His own beauty. Thus it is time for Christians to be called back to the truth that the meaning of life is to be found in “the glory of God alone.”
— John Hannah, Kirchenhistoriker und Theologe
Topics: Meaning & Identity, 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)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
There is a God, and I'm not him.
John Mark Comer
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson