Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,’ and points to the dormant goddess in every human being’s body. While the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“No matter what our different circumstances and vocations may be, every woman is a theologian. We all have an understanding about who… — Aimee Byrd Copy Share Image
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What sort of God do we serve? Certainly not one who can be tamed or boxed or fully understood. Don't get me… — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share Image
Beliefs create behaviors, and the dysfunctional behaviors of the human race, observable everywhere every day, are the product of our non-workable beliefs.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“we find the university dominated by theology of another kind – a godless theology, to be sure, but one no less insistent… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Protestantism, of course, is much more explicitly divided into different traditions - the Pentecostals, the Anglicans. But there is the main tradition… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“...only in the late 1100s and 1200s did scholars in Sicily and Spain translate Aristotle's greatest philosophical and scientific texts. These translations… — William C Placher Copy Share Image
“Centuries of dire prophecy have taught us all to be, well, unconvinced. And there have been decades, entire scores of years when,… — Scott Cairns Copy Share Image
The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The… — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
The difficulty in today's world is our technology and science has outrun our theological advances. The reason for that is in technology… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There's two kinds of thinking. There is conjunctive thinking and there's disjunctive thinking. Disjunctive thinking says it has to be either/or. Now… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any child can ask before… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The 144,000 have the patience of the saints; they keep the commandments of God, and they also have the faith of Jesus.… — M.L. Andreasen Copy Share Image
“Time is the very lens through which ye see—small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope—something that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
