over the last several days, and with more to come, i have been publishing quotations from douglas john hall's book The Cross in Our Context ( fortress press, 2003 )
" If, traditionally, contextual theological thought has been rare in North America for the colonialist and other reason adduced earlier, it is discouraged today by the heavy burden of guilt that such analysis is likely to inflict upon us. Rather than question the rectitude of our way of life, we will ignore incontrovertible economic, environmental, geopolitical, and other statistics, minimize the extent of our consumption and waste and its effects upon the biosphere, and consign to exaggeration and scare-mongering all those who demand of us a rigorous accounting and a change of lifestyle. " ( p49 )
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" As Bonhoeffer insisted in all of his writings .. the Judeo-Christian tradition is an extraordinarily ' worldly ' faith, which, if we are serious about it, will not provide for us - will in fact deny us - an escape from the terrors of finite existence but will instead beckon us toward an immersion in creation the like of which we should never have chosen on our own. " ( p55 )
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