Graham Stacey

We have argued that loving fellowship is a relationship in which two persons identify with each other by each making the others real interests his or her own. In this serving your interests not merely in the same way that I serve my own, but as being my own, I love you as myself. If all people were to love God and each other in this way, we would have peace on earth and the Kingdom of God would be with us! Unfortunately this ideal is far from being realized in the broken world in which we live, and even those fellowships which we do achieve in life remain fragile and under constant threat of estrangement. Vincent Brummer Atonement, Christology and the Trinity [Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005] 38

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We know very little about most people with whom we interact in life, and the few things we do know about them we also find in others. Hence, they remain for us not much more than comparable bearers of those properties. It is therefore difficult for us to treat them consistently as irreplaceable persons. They are for us no more than partners in a tacit agreement of rights and obligations in which they become for us mere replaceable means for serving our own ends. Page 33

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Just started reading this as part of my lent reading this year. It has been a while since I have read any of Miroslav’s work and as soon as I started it stuck me how much I have missed doing so.
I can only encourage you to get a copy details here. You might also be interested in looking at the Lenten Blog by Jason Clark which is based around this book and even has the author commenting to the posts!

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