"Salvation is an individual's personal encounter with God's Presence."

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“Some students cannot accept that radical openness of history, and they lapse into some form of fundamentalism or traditionalism that simply clings to theological formulas of the past.”

“A symbol is first of all a finite reality of this world.”

“The single most important factor that has undermined the notion of inspiration is the rise of an historical consciousness.”

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