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We are Artful Dodgers

Author
  • Søren Kierkegaard
Categories
  • Bible and Theology
Illiustration Categories
  • Background
Keywords (10)
  • New Testament
  • Christian Values
  • The Christian Faith
  • Christian Authenticity
  • Doctrine
Scripture (6)
  • Isaiah 29:13
  • Amos 5:21-24
  • Proverbs 1:7
  • James 1:22-25
  • Matthew 23:27-28
Date Added
  • Feb 21, 2025

We artful dodgers act as if we do not understand the New Testament, because we realize full well that [if we let on that we did] we should have to change our way of life drastically. That is why we invented 'religious education' and 'Christian doctrine.'

Another concordance, another lexicon, a few more commentaries, three other translations, because it is all so difficult to under stand. Yes, of course, dear God, all of us capitalists, house-owners, beggars, the whole society we would be lost if it were not for 'scholarly doctrine!'"

Found in Peter G. van Breemen, Called by Name (Denville, NJ: Dimension Books, 1976), 88, and in Brennan Manning, Abba's Child (Colorado Springs, Co.: NavPress, 1994), 135.


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