Quotes About Theology

Theology and history are intellectual pursuits; faith is commitment of the whole person.

We cannot therefore speak of a Pauline theology as an abstract, theoretical, speculative system; but we can recognize a Pauline theology as an interpretation of the meaning of the person and work of Christ in its practical relevance for Christian life, both individual and collective.

In short, the earliest Christianity did not consist of a new doctrine about God nor of a new hope of immortality nor even of new theological insights about the nature of salvation. It consisted of the recital of a great event, of a mighty act of God: the raising of Christ from the dead. Any new theological emphases are the inevitable meanings of this redemptive act of God in raising the crucified Jesus from the dead.

The question "What is man?" is probably the most profound that can be asked by man. It has always been central to any system of philosophy or theology…. The point I want to make now is that all attempts to answer that question before 1859 are worthless and that we will be better off if we ignore them completely.

We must not, however, begin with theology. The religion which is founded merely on theology can never contain anything of morality. Hence we derive no other feelings from it but fear on the one hand, and hope of reward on the other, and this produces merely a superstitious cult. Morality, then, must come first and theology follow; and that is religion.

Suffering is no scandal. It is natural. Nature appoints it. All creation suffers. It suffers from having been created, if from nothing else. It suffers from being divided from God.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

En el mito hebreo de Adán y Eva, el pecado que cometieron es el de adquirir conocimiento (al comer el fruto del árbol del conocimiento del bien y del mal: es decir el conocimiento de todo) y por ello fueron expulsados del Edén y, según los teólogos cristianos, infectaron a toda la Humanidad con el «pecado original».

La creación de los robots fue considerada como el primer ejemplo de la arrogancia desmesurada de la Humanidad, de su intento de despojar al teólogo de su manto, por medio de la ciencia mal manejada. La creación de vida humana, con un alma, era prerrogativa única de Dios.

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if he wanted to, but I very much doubt if he would because it seems to be contrary to the way in which he deals with persons and brings his wonders out of natural personal relationships.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

understood how fundamental books were to Jewish culture, theology, and identity

Anthropologists can speculate about human behavior; archaeologists, about patterns of settlement; philosophers and theologians, about the motivations of "humanity" as an undifferentiated mass. But the historian's task is different: to look for particular human lives that give flesh and spirit to abstract assertions about human behavior.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.