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> [I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/i-m-not-sure-that-i-ve-ever-been-drawn-to-the-academic-life-as-such/)

[James Alison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-alison/)

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## More by James Alison

> [Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/give-people-a-common-enemy-and-you-will-give-them-a-common-identity/)

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> [I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/i-m-not-sure-that-i-ve-ever-been-drawn-to-the-academic-life-as-such/)

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> [I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able to learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/i-think-i-have-quite-traditional-views-on-original-sin-grace-and-the/)

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> [The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/the-silence-of-those-in-positions-of-influence-in-the-church-who-know/)

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> [My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/my-own-belief-is-that-being-gay-is-a-regularly-occurring/)

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> [I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/i-m-honestly-not-sure-that-i-ve-ever-tried-to-talk-as-a-theologian/)

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> [“The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/the-doctrine-of-original-sin-is-the-doctrine-according-to-which/)

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> [I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/i-m-trying-to-make-the-case-that-the-church-can-indeed-from-within/)

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> [“And this is what it means to be able to see yourself as a sinner: far from “seeing yourself as a sinner” being some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/and-this-is-what-it-means-to-be-able-to-see-yourself-as-a-sinner-far/)

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> [I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/i-m-not-much-of-a-multitasker-and-when-i-m-in-productive-mode/)

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> [Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-alison/part-of-my-motivation-in-the-search-for-a-cause-of-being-gay-was-the/)

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