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Truly such as these, if when called they refuse to undertake offices of supreme rule, for the most part deprive themselves of the very gifts which they received not for themselves alone, but for others also; and, while they meditate their own and not another’s gain, they forfeit the very benefits which they desire to keep to themselves.
The Book of Pastoral Rule
Saint Gregory the Great
The gospel is the way we learn to be human.4 As Irenaeus once put it, “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.”5 Second, the implicit picture of being human is dynamic. To be human is to be for something, directed toward something, oriented toward something. To be human is to be on the move, pursuing something, after something. We are like existential sharks: we have to move to live.
You Are What You Love
James K. A. Smith
In short, the kingdom is concerned with the stuff of sociology—with redeeming communities, institutions, and systems of human organization.
Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith
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