Ambitious Quote by Terry Eagleton

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

“Theology is a discipline that is at once oriented to the transcendent and thoroughly located in a particular time and place. It arises out…

— Christine Helmer

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science)…

— James K.A. Smith

“There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and…

— Alvin Boyd Kuhn

“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

“When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is…

— Criss Jami

“THERE IS GOOD REASON why Christian theologians consider theodicy the unsolvable theological issue. The reason is this: It is unsolvable.”

— John H. Walton

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology…

— Arthur Peacocke

“The only thing a doctorate in Theology or Divinity proves is that you’ve wasted an extreme amount of time learning about something that doesn’t…

— Al Stefanelli

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

— Karl Barth