Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Every Christian must strive to arrive at beliefs about God that faithfully reflect the realities of his or her life and experience,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“Because the brain does not possess robust ‘fault detectors’, the brain will just as easily encode irrational thoughts and beliefs just as… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that the Church is Christ's… — E.L. Mascall Copy Share Image
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of… — erwin panofsky Copy Share Image
“I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“Hence it's funny to read in the New York Times that liberal Catholic activists are pushing for a change in Church teaching… — John Zmirak Copy Share Image
“As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give… — Gerhard O. Forde Copy Share Image
I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to… — John M. Frame Copy Share Image
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“A theology that cannot be sung is not worth having… Authentic Christian faith is not merely believed. Nor is it merely acted… — Reggie M. Kidd Copy Share Image
It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“If the first Adam was formed from dust, and the second conceived of Spirit and born of woman, then the coming of… — Paule Patterson Copy Share Image
“Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ… — Ram Swarup Copy Share Image
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine. It is a person, and his… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
You mean 'Injustice Sunday II', ... is using religion to alienate people rather than to bring people together. It has more to… — Tim McDonald Copy Share Image
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that’s not the way we live. The good news of… — David Seamands Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in the definition of Religion is there a mandate for religions to self-challenge or revamp their theological positions based on new… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I truly believe that such… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
“Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
