Often the language used to talk about God is stunted and feeble, sometimes awkward, sometimes generic; one easily divides into verticalists and horizontalists, traditionalists and progressives, one makes judgements that, in the light of the Gospel, are at least inadequate.

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Spesso il linguaggio usato per parlare di Dio è stentato e fiacco, a volte imbarazzato, a volte generico; ci si divide facilmente in verticalisti e orizzontalisti, tradizionalisti e progressisti, si formulano giudizi che, alla luce del Vangelo, risultano perlomeno inadeguati.

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As quoted in Le sorprese del linguaggio di Gesù, avvenire.it (February 28, 2011)

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