“Teaching and learning _religious plurality often ends up privileging religious _texts_ over _practice_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“No single theologian writing in Greek or Syriac in the patristic period exercised an influence in the Christian East comparable to that… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)’s… — Denys Turner Copy Share Image
“Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Cosmopolitanism promotes a sense of new _we-ness as regarding every individual human being as a citizen of the cosmos. However, the _we-cosmic-citizens_… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“The core tenet of worldly religion and the pure heart of the Lord Jesus are different in that one is centered around… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement.… — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
“Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history… — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
“Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Yes, I run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, I pray and I meditate as well. I just believe in… — Nynke Visser Copy Share Image
“I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology… — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
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