Quote by Bart D. Ehrman

“For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.”

— Martin Luther

“Origen taught that when we come upon a biblical passage that seems unworthy of God, we must humble ourselves before God and ask the…

— Gergory A. Boyd

“The artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.”

— Leo Tolstoy

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Later orthodox theologians would have found this view completely inadequate. In stressing that the Father was “greater” than the Son, Tertullian articulated a view…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract…

— Andy Stanley

“The ongoing work of individual theologians continues to inform the authoritative doctrine of the people of God.”

— Beth Felker Jones

“I did not think of myself as a detective; I was a student of theology, and I was to spend my life in exploration,…

— Laurie R. King

All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty,…

— Wilfred Owen

“Every Christian is a theologian. We are always engaged in the activity of learning about the things of God. We are not all theologians…

— R.C. Sproul

“When theology is fixated on the task of clarifying topics as categories, theology becomes esoteric and disconnected from the lived experience where Christian faith…

— Frederick L. Ware

“Let the oratory be what it is called, and let nothing else be done or stored there. When the work of God is finished,…

— St. Benedict