“society. The task of theology was not to mirror the norms of culture, but when necessary to confront and even contradict them,… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
“Behold divinity divine enough to abandon divinity. Behold majesty secure enough to proceed un-majestically. Behold strength strong enough to become weakness, goodness… — Paul Ramsey Copy Share Image
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split… — Hans Urs von Balthasar 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 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
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
“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
“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
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
Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“I believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief.… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.'… — John Silber Copy Share Image
“…Theology, as revealed in Scripture, supplies the categories for people to understand their own experience. Theology is the standard by which people… — Jeremy Pierre Copy Share Image
Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for… — James Alison Copy Share Image
The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I haven't studied theology in any systematic way. I don't think I'd find certain subjects - canon law, for instance - terribly… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
![“Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.” quote by Charles Sanders Peirce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/61a/charles-sanders-peirce-5105_curiosity_theology-i-am-persuaded-derives-its-init_564614.jpg)
