The Nerve of Failure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10828216 |
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| Authors | Leonard I Sweet (SUNY Geneseo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-149 |
| Publication date | 1977-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5736 • E-ISSN: 2044-2556 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/004057367703400202 |
| OpenAlex | W2316587339 |
| Language | EN |
“The quality that should mark the Christian church is not goodness, but grace, not merit, but mercy, not moralism, but forgiveness, not the enshrinement of success, but the acceptance of failure ... Lacking the nerve of failure, we have suffered a failure of nerve—to dare to dream dreams, venture visions, and risk getting splinters that come from cutting against the grain.”
Dream · Forgiveness · Morality · Political science · Theology · Vision · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Neuroscience · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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