D. Elton Trueblood
D. Elton Trueblood
David Elton Trueblood, who was usually known as "Elton Trueblood" or "D. Elton Trueblood", was a noted 20th-century American Quaker author and theologian, former chaplain both to Harvard and Stanford universities...
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christian intellectual three
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
needs firsts arriving
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
giving way
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
love-is feelings religion
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
hearing world christianity
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
future thoughtful past
Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.
religion responsible changed
The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.
art science engineering
Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.
men democracy facts
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it. ...
children challenges ordinary
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.
catholic society church
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.
support deeds adequate
The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
sense-of-humor never-trust theologian
Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
men average church
If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.