Books Quote by Stanley Hauerwas

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

— N. T. Wright

“The discipline of theology is about learning to read Scripture more faithfully. It is also about speaking the truth of Scripture in ways that…

— Beth Felker Jones

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is…

— Stanley Hauerwas

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

— Oliver D. Crisp

When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon…

— Monica Johnson

“The Christian community first came up with theological abstractions because eventually we had to speak in shorthand about the complexity of God’s story and…

— Sarah Arthur

“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well as we…

— Patricia Goodson

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt…

— Dinaw Mengestu

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

— Karen Armstrong

“We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in…

— John M. Frame

I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.

— Marilynne Robinson

There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense,…

— John H. Groberg