the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.
– Namsoon Kang
Related Quotes:
- Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_. – Namsoon Kang
- I believe theology should be about one’s way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one’s profound existence in the world. – Namsoon Kang
- Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal. – Namsoon Kang
- Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all. – Namsoon Kang
- Cosmopolitan discourse…provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way. – Namsoon Kang
- Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people – Namsoon Kang
- I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect. – Namsoon Kang
- Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity. – Namsoon Kang
- Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective – Namsoon Kang
- _For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve? – Namsoon Kang
- the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_. – Namsoon Kang
- Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God’s special revelation. – Perry G Downs
- Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind. – Gerhard Ebeling
- My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him. – Erik Larson
- Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the truth. – JR Rim
- Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
- MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
- Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? – Irvin D Yalom
- Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. – Hans Kng
- Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life it is what gives meaning to life. – Mollie Marti
- We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we’re looking for. – Ron Brackin
- Search, search. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts. – Pam Farrel
- The search for wisdom is like a search for gold. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Talent does not search for the person, in fact the person needs to search for the talent inside him and take it out to show the world. – Unarine Ramaru
- If love is what we search for…. Then why at the end of our search we only find pain? – David MarceloCabanas
- Philosophy starts when we question ourselves and search for meaning in our lives. – Avijeet Das
- The search for meaning was the cornerstone of human disquiet. – Blake Crouch
- Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment. – Jim George
- God is the inevitability of humanity’s search for true meaning. – Jared Brock
- God is the inevitability of humanity’s search for true meaning. – Jared Brock
- What better way to oppose the monopolisation of truth and meaning than to go in search of their foundations within one’s own psyche? – Daniel Waterman
- Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. – Sigmund Freud
- Pride does not only come with great responsibility. It is buy one get one free. Great responsibility will require great resourcefulness. – Janna Cachola
- People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other. – Amit Kalantri
- Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that’s obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right. – Simon Sinek
- Personal Responsibility leads to collective responsibility. – Sunday Adelaja
- A decision is a responsibility, if you cannot handle responsibility, don’t take decisions. – Amit Kalantri
- Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer