Theology Quotes

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.

The worst criminals are not half so immoral as the creators and perpetrators of the unquestionable hell of Christian theology

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message?

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

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

In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that says that everything is separate from everything else.

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.

Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.

That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

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

To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.