--- title: "4 Gregory Alan Thornbury Quotes" description: "American academic... | Gregory Alan Thornbury is an American academic. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Silver Art Projects at The World..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/gregory-alan-thornbury-65822_dreams_stated-simply-henry-s-vision-for-theolog_550788.jpg" --- # Gregory Alan Thornbury (1970) **4** quotes in **5** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet American academic... \| Gregory Alan Thornbury is an American academic. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Silver Art Projects at The World Trade Center. Thornbury formerly served as the president of The King's College in New York City from 2013 to 2017, and chancellor from 2017 to 2018. Before his tenure at ## Quick Facts About Gregory Alan Thornbury Born November 20, 1970 ## Quotes by Gregory Alan Thornbury > [“Stated simply, Henry’s vision for theology was that it be epistemologically viable, methodologically coherent, biblically accurate, socially responsible, evangelistically oriented and universally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-alan-thornbury/stated-simply-henry-s-vision-for-theology-was-that-it-be/) [Gregory Alan Thornbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-alan-thornbury/) [Dreams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dreams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/gregory-alan-thornbury-65822_dreams_stated-simply-henry-s-vision-for-theolog_550788.jpg) > [“Occam’s epistemological developments effected an essential schism within medieval scholarship and precipitated a new school of philosophy that emphasized the freedom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-alan-thornbury/occam-s-epistemological-developments-effected-an-essential-schism/) [Gregory Alan Thornbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-alan-thornbury/) [Philosophy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/philosophy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/gregory-alan-thornbury-65822_philosophy_occam-s-epistemological-developments-eff_1268566.jpg) > [“Thomistic naturalism is still, to this day, the unofficial philosophy of the Roman Catholic Church.47 The most frequent criticism of Thomas’s argument…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-alan-thornbury/thomistic-naturalism-is-still-to-this-day-the-unofficial-philosophy/) [Gregory Alan Thornbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-alan-thornbury/) [Naturalism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/naturalism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/gregory-alan-thornbury-65822_naturalism_thomistic-naturalism-is-still-to-this-da_2689496.jpg) > [“What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-alan-thornbury/what-is-more-as-j-r-r-tolkien-reminds-us-in-his-great-essay-on/) [Gregory Alan Thornbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-alan-thornbury/) [Myth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/myth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a5/gregory-alan-thornbury-65822_myth_what-is-more-as-j-r-r-tolkien-reminds-us_2956466.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-alan-thornbury/#itemlist", "name": "Gregory Alan Thornbury Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Stated simply, Henry’s vision for theology was that it be epistemologically viable, methodologically coherent, biblically accurate, socially responsible, evangelistically oriented and universally applied. 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