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
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
“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
“Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,’ and points to the dormant goddess in every human being’s body. While the… — Zeena Schreck 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
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
“In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science:… — Uta Ranke-Heinemann Copy Share Image
“Luther’s theology of the cross begins with a realistic view of mankind as fallen and dead in sin. Good works are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a… — Bill Moyers 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
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Although I know that there is ultimately greater glory in suffering than in joy, it is joy that sustains us. It is… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
“What sort of God do we serve? Certainly not one who can be tamed or boxed or fully understood. Don't get me… — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share Image
Beliefs create behaviors, and the dysfunctional behaviors of the human race, observable everywhere every day, are the product of our non-workable beliefs.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“we find the university dominated by theology of another kind – a godless theology, to be sure, but one no less insistent… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
“No matter what our different circumstances and vocations may be, every woman is a theologian. We all have an understanding about who… — Aimee Byrd Copy Share Image
Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The 144,000 have the patience of the saints; they keep the commandments of God, and they also have the faith of Jesus.… — M.L. Andreasen Copy Share Image
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