- Faith is "thinking with assent"
- Passion is a curse.
- Mortification of the body
- Suffering is wages for sin.
- Death is wages for sin
- Holiness is the quest for perfection.
- Dualistic (either/or).
- Suspicious of the body and violent in its body/soul imagery
- Humility is to "despise yourself"
- Pessimistic
- Elitist
- Particular
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- Faith is trust.
- Passion is a blessing
- Discipline toward birthing
- Suffering is the birth pangs of the universe.
- Death is a natural event.
- Holiness is cosmic hospitality.
- Dialectical (both/and)
- Welcoming of the body and gentle in its body/soul imagery.
- Humility is to befriend one's earthiness.
- Hopeful
- For the many.
- Universalist.
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