Education Quote by Michael F. Bird Download Open image ““theology is not the study of ideas about God; it is the study of the living God.”” — Michael F. Bird ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education God Study Living God Religion Study Living Theology Theology Study
“Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“If you don’t know the difference between theology and religious studies, then you’re a theologian.” — Brian Bocking Copy Share Image
“Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Theology is something that is learned, lived, sung, preached, and renewed through the dynamic interaction between God and his people.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“So I offer my definition of theology: theology is the application of Scripture, by persons, to every area of life.11” — John M. Frame Copy Share Image
“Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.” — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
“Theology, after all, was made for the sake of the church, not the church for theology.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Studying Theology doesn't make you religious any more than studying Psychology makes you crazy.” — Ashley Chappell Copy Share Image
“Modern man is determined to believe; that he has demonstrated by the very strength with which he has clutched at absurdities, at fleeting phantasms… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“The Trinity is not a doctrinal innovation but constitutes an explanation of the God whom Christians experienced in proclamation, worship, fellowship, communal meals, and… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“The sequence of events described in the gospel is the work of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is hardly my own discovery. Consider… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“Now while “Jesus wins in the end” is certainly true, it is a rather terse and vague slogan and does not capture the full… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“The operation of God as he is described as acting in the gospel intimates the triune nature of God. Only a triune God can… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“The power of God knows no limit, no condition, and no contingency other than being expressed in accordance with his own character.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“If the gospel is where we first experience God, then our primal experience of God is a Trinitarian experience.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“Theology is something that is learned, lived, sung, preached, and renewed through the dynamic interaction between God and his people.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“We need to tell our Jewish friends that to become a Christian does not mean that they have to cease being Jewish culturally, socially,… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“at its essence theology is the art of gospelizing, that is, making the gospel shape our thinking, praying, preaching, teaching, and ministering in relation… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“In sum, to study the God of the gospel—the God who handed over his Son, who raised him up again, and who sent his… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
“Divine immutability is not the construct of an unloving God imported from Greek philosophy; rather, divine immutability is the grounds for the constancy of… — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image