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Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚
Too easily we have settled for knowing about God. Too easily our actual relationship with God is remarkably superficial. Is it any surprise, then, that we haven’t learned very much about our self as a result of this encounter?
Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚
there are many false ways of achieving uniqueness. These all result from attempts to create a self rather than receive the gift of my self-in-Christ. But the uniqueness that comes from being our true self is not a uniqueness of our own making. Identity is never simply a creation. It is always a discovery. True identity is always a gift of God.
Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚
We should never be tempted to think that growth in Christlikeness reduces our uniqueness. While some Christian visions of the spiritual life imply that as we become more like Christ we look more and more like each other, such a cultic expectation of loss of individuality has nothing in common with genuine Christian spirituality. Paradoxically, as we become more and more like Christ we become more uniquely our own true self.
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is the statement of “a mystery revealed when Christ ascended to his Father, and sent the comforter to dwell among men that they might become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven” — F. D. Maurice
An Introduction to F.D.Maurice’s Theology by W. Merlin Davies 📚
Currently reading: An Introduction to F.D.Maurice’s Theology by W. Merlin Davies 📚
