Sentences with phrase «discern strange persons»

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If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

How strange that a Catholic theologian appeals to prisons, and not to Catholic theology, to discern how to respond to people who commit crime and harm themselves, their families, and their neighbors.