“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
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
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
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
“Perhaps it’s not theology we’re missing, but rather theological integrity. Many have the knowledge but lack the courage to admit the discrepancy… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age;… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“I am going to show you great and mighty things which no one has ever seen before… I am going to take… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
“The Bible was penned by men. The Epistles of Paul were penned by that evangelist salesman and his students, desperate to bring… — Angella Graff Copy Share Image
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God,… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
“The sensayer frowned. “You’re saying you discuss theology while having sex.” “For beginners it’s before and after mostly, managing it during sex… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
Music will inevitably get you into Philosophy, and once you logically see that through, will end up getting you into Theology. Once… — Gino Vannelli Copy Share Image
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight… — Deborah Lipstadt Copy Share Image
When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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