Uta Ranke-Heinemann famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.
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Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.
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Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.
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Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.
-- Uta Ranke-Heinemann
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Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
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You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.
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As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
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This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
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Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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