Theology Quotes

I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.

Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself.

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger--

most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.

Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.

Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that the Church is Christ's own body, flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones.

Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people

Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.

I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.

Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.

How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.

the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.

the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.

Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.

Love isn’t self-centered, even at the supreme scale.

That which isn’t love, isn’t god.

Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231

Here I stand, so help me God, I can do no other. With the greater consciousness of the issues involved comes a lesser assurance that an alternative is possible.

No cross, no Christian

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments.

We are fools, not by our religious beliefs, however by what we are lead to believe by those who control what information we receive

When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

When Millennials face turmoil, they don’t just need answers from God, they need God.

Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?

Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures