Cosmopolitan Quotes
Cosmopolitan Quote of the day
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...
It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.
the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.
the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.
Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.
_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?
Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.
Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective
How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?
Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.
I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.
The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.
Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.
I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.
Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.
Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people
Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.
Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.