James Alison

"The process which we see is the process of an upset which forces the gradual learning of how to become unattached from everything which seemed divine and holy, the collapse of zeal for the Lord of hos…"

"We cannot understand the preaching of the resurrection if it is understood as a miraculous moment which founds a new religion. If it is taken thus, we are in fact denying the force and efficacy of the…"

"In one case as in the other, the question which gives away the sacrificial mentality underlying group belonging is the same: are you for us, or are you one of them? It is the question which reveals th…"

"Sin is resistance, in the name of God, to the creative work of God which seeks to include us all."

"The structure of our desire, which precedes our consciousness, is murderous. That desire ensures that our cultural constructs, our language and our knowledge are radically inflected by the lie which f…"

"The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry."

"Sin ceases to be a defect which excludes, and comes to be participation in the mechanism of exclusion."

"But as we become stronger, more capable of words, happier in our discovery that God does indeed love us, then might it not be important that we learn to withhold the excessive tribute of our resentmen…"