Theological Quote by John Polkinghorne Download Open image “At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.” — John Polkinghorne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Theological Thinking Too much
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
The great need is for us to be taught theologically, not just stirred emotionally. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered — John Piper Copy Share Image
Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of creation of the kind that the Abrahamic faiths profess is such that it encourages the expectation that there will be a… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“In the scientific community, the adjective ‘theological’ is some- times used pejoratively to refer to a vague or ill-formulated belief. I believe this usage… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken assumptions about… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply deny the… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free… — Robert Morneau Copy Share Image
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