Craig Keen Quotes & Sayings

...theology waits as it works. It waits for its lungs again to be filled. Without the renewing breath of the Spirit it cannot speak. — Craig Keen

There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church. — Craig Keen

...it is for me in the flesh to acknowledge that Jesus Christ was a letter written in blood to the lost, weak, and forsaken of the world, to the hungry and despised, that announced that the Reign of God is coming and it is coming for the ones to whom the mutilated body of the crucified opens in invitation. — Craig Keen

The passion of Jesus is lonely only as all our deaths are lonely. He is with us in the loneliness of death, too. And so, he and we are not alone even there. The same blow that strikes him dead, strikes us all dead, and it strikes us in the same way. — Craig Keen

The thinking church is the acting church. Yet also the acting church is the thinking church. — Craig Keen

Memory is for what is hoped; hope is for what is remembered. — Craig Keen

The theologian remembers for the sake of hope. — Craig Keen

The eucharist relativizes every leader. — Craig Keen

And yet a dream of God--THIS God--is no ordinary dream, nor night terror... It is an apocalyptic vision. As such it makes manifest what good people do not want to see, perhaps cannot see. It manifests above all that there is a tomorrow that no yesterday can dictate. But it does so with the ambiguity that accompanies every call to revolution. "The Reign of God is coming," it says, "and it is coming for you! — Craig Keen

The forsakenness of the Son is the forsakenness of all who die... — Craig Keen

Grace comes particularly where calculation has come to an end. — Craig Keen

The hope of a future in Christ is a hope that does not lean on present and available ability, some power-pack of recovery. An act of the properly potential may restore, satisfy, and complete, but it will never break the chain that keeps it tethered to the essentially old. It may be relatively, but isn't absolutely new. — Craig Keen