Dan Barker Quotes
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I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
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We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
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All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.
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Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
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I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.
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Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is
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At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.
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What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.
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Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
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I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.
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The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level.
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I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.
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You have to be different, great or first.
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Theology is a subject without an object
