Quotes by Peter Rollins

About Peter Rollins:

Peter Rollins is a Northern Irish writer, public speaker, philosopher and theologian who is a prominent figure in Radical Theology.
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Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the ‘truth’ with the purity of our interpretations. But orthodoxy, as believing in the right way, as bringing love to the w...

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In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).

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What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

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What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

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This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,

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Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

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Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

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In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of G...

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There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence th...

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Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

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A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus has conquered death. Yet a faith that can look at the horror ...

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That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

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The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the ...

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Author Bio

  • NamePeter Rollins
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornMarch 31, 1973