Who Said That?

"The work of salvation is first of all the illumination that all of us are loved by God with the greatest love we can imagine -- the love that loves us not in spite of who we are but because of who we are . . . address[ed] not to a sinner but to the beloved . . . [who is] not evil but loving wrongly."

Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  Answer to follow next week.

Update on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 04:47PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This comes from feminist theologian Sallie McFague's Models of God:  Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age (1987), 144.

Comments

[Dusty]

Spinoza

[reg]

The average UCC minister on any given Sunday.

[Albert I.]

Robert Schuller!

["lee n. field"]

Before I go do the search, I'm going to say Robert "self esteem" Schuller.

[Todd Pruitt]

Definitely Schuller!

[Chris]

Brennan Manning

[dsanger]

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

[Gene Frenkel]

Charles Stanley

[Coyle]

Wow, that really could be anyone but a historical Christian. Maybe the Gospel of Thomas?

[Matt]

The quote doesn't make sense,


......not in spite of who were are but because of who were are . . ...


who were are? who were are?

what?

[Andrew]

Matt: probably "who we are".

I'll guess Schuller too.

[Andrew]

Matt: er "who we were"

[Jp]

Dare I say Tim Keller...hope I'm wrong about that one though.

[Micael R. Wilson]

good ol' Joel Osteen

[timinator]

Robert Schuller

[Douglas K. Adu-Boahen]

Robert Schuller. His aversion to saying anything negative is oozing here...

[Ivan]

Jp suggested earlier:
"Dare I say Tim Keller...hope I'm wrong about that one though. "

jp: you got some 'splainin' to do.
Why would you even suggest such a thing?
I

[Marv]

Katharine Jefferts Schori