Belief Quote by Gregory B. Sadler

“At any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas, which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Anonymous

The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death…

— Donald M. MacKinnon

“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the…

— H.P. Lovecraft

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual…

— Bertrand Russell

“The first thing I fell in love with about Orthodoxy was that my opinions are irrelevant, which is a sign of the preservation of…

— Atom Tate

We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or…

— Brian D. McLaren

“Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.”

— Ross Douthat

“Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer assumes that…

— David Marshall Brooks

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Peter Lucas

Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine?…

— Elaine Pagels

“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel…

— Richard M. Rorty

“(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then.”

— Rachel Held Evans