“The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was… — Mary Hesse Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that… — Jean-Luc Marion Copy Share Image
Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The quest for knowledge is the essence of science. The science of biology is a quest to gain a knowledge of living… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.” — Alan Aldridge Copy Share Image
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
I think Pope Francis is a guy who comes from a certain place in the world, and that shapes how he processes… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained,… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“The purpose of theology is not to tickle our intellects but to instruct us in the ways of God, so that we… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains… — John Frame Copy Share Image
I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
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