Quotes About Theology

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation

UNSETTLED QUESTIONS FOR THEOLOGY TODAY (1920)

Concerning the Investigation of Super-History' (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20–8)

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

the concrete actuality of God's revelation in Word and Act.

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.