“Theological formation is the gradual and painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.”
"We cannot afford to do theology unrelated to human existence. We cannot be 'objective,' but must recognize, with Imamu Baraka, that 'there is no objective anything' -least of all theology"
Hope's statements of promise anticipate the future. In the promises, the hidden future already announces itself and exerts its influence on the present through the hope it awakens.