History Quote by David Novak

Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“The truth that there is an infinite, eternal, and personal mind behind the realities of the universe that can be detected through human reflection…

— Kenneth Samples

“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

“Theology is a discipline that is at once oriented to the transcendent and thoroughly located in a particular time and place. It arises out…

— Christine Helmer

“Theology is not an excursion into the stratosphere that lies beyond scriptural sppech in time: it may not travel beyond the borders of faith's…

— G C Berkouwer

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the…

— John Polkinghorne

“This is what you do when you journal. You are recording God’s grand, epoch-spanning redemptive story as it unfolds in your limited, temporal sphere…

— Adam L. Feldman

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and…

— G. M. Trevelyan

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

— Karen Armstrong

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

— Ambrose Bierce