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"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery o'Connor

"Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, stewards of the new day that is dawning."
- NT Wright

"When we think our brother or sister has sinned against us, such an affront is not just against us but against the whole community. A community established as peaceful cannot afford to let us relish our sense of being wronged without exposing that wrong in the hopes of reconciliation."
- Stan Hauerwas

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
- Thomas Merton

"All the believers were of one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possesions was their own, but they shared everything that they had."
- Acts of the Apostles

"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself."
- St. Augustine

(reading)

The Eucharist of the Early Christians

The Collected Short Stories, Flannery o'Connor

The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy

(have read)

Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II

God is Near Us, Pope Benedict XVI

Heretics/Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

What is the Kingdom?

You scored as Kingdom as a Christianised Society. Christians shouldn't withdraw from the world, but by being present in it they can transform it. The kingdom is not only spiritual, but social, political, and cultural. Kingdom as a Christianised Society 75% The Kingdom is mystical communion 58% The Kingdom as Earthly Utopia 58% Inner spiritual experience 50% The Kingdom as a counter-system 33% The Kingdom as Institutional Church 33% The Kingdom as a political state 25% The Kingdom is a Future Hope 17% What is the Kingdom of God? created with QuizFarm.com

Not much of a suprise. I believe the Kingdom of God to be the living moments of God-ness on earth. I believe that true Kingdom living will result in not only spiritual change, but a whole renewal of the human person as she or he becomes more like God. Call me a liberal (And I may punch out your teeth... j/k) but I think that Christians aren't the only ones involved in God's plan for the salvation of the world... I think my score would be better termed: "Kingdom as a God-soaked Society."

posted by -mike- at 5:37 PM

 

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