Academia Quote by John Shelby Spong

“...heresy was often perceived by the Church as a financial or political threat rather than merely a theological one.”

— Jonathan Kirsch

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

— George Washington

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

— H. G. Wells

And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

“The trouble has generally been . . . that people have emphasized either experience or doctrine at the expense of the other. . .…

— Michael L. Brown

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human…

— Henry B. Eyring

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

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

— Anonymous

“It is ironical that, in the very field in which Science has claimed superiority to Theology, for example - in the abandoning of dogma…

— Herbert Dingle

“Besides (said he) do you not observe what a keen Edge Christian Faith puts upon the ill-nature of Divines, when they are disputing about…

— William Stephens