I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained,… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It… — James K. Baxter Copy Share Image
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“The return to the “Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name” allows me to let my dad be no less than… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“His theology is mostly focused on helping people with their physical needs. All that's important, of course, but he'll hit a dry… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Think of a potter taking a misshapen bowl from his wheel and pounding it back into the tub of clay. A soul… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also… — Richard Dawkins 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
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 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
“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 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
I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he… — T.F. Torrance Copy Share Image
God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Theology is not an excursion into the stratosphere that lies beyond scriptural sppech in time: it may not travel beyond the borders… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi… — Saul Friedlander Copy Share Image
“That this is really the case was made plain to me by the questions asked me, mostly by young men, about my… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The death of the innocent, sinless Christ and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to us satisfy God’s justice and holiness. If, however,… — David K. Bernard Copy Share Image
Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it… — Karl Barth 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
To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to… — Margaret R. Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
“Forget everything you ordinarily associate with religious study. Strip away all the reverence and the awe and the art and the philosophy… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Ye can know nothing of the end of all things, or nothing expressible in those terms. It may be, as the Lord… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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