Quotes About Theology

There is no possible source of evil except good.

God is the name given by theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God the whole existence is made of the stuff called love.

Medieval medicine was also based on equilibrium ideas when it was top-down and similar to theology. Luckily its practitioners went out of business, as they could not compete with the bottom-up surgeons, ecologically driven former barbers who gained clinical experience, and after whom a-Platonic clinical science was born. If I am alive, today, it is because scholastic top-down medicine went out of business a few centuries ago.

Valencia's plan was conversion by proxy: he and the rest of the twelve would open the eyes of the Indian priesthood to the beauties of the true faith, gaining their adherence by reasoned theological discussion, and then the priests would fan out and spread the Gospel in their native tongue.

He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.[9]

This points us to an undeniable theological truth we learn from Genesis 4: humans are murderers, not because we commit murder, but because we are murderers at heart.

In Cantor's mind there were an infinite number of infinities-the transfinite numbers-each nested in the other. Aleph 0 is smaller than Aleph 1, which is smaller than Aleph 2, which is smaller than Aleph 3, and so forth. At the top of the chain sits the ultimate infinity that engulfs all other infinities: God, the infinity that defies all comprehension.

Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?

I believe in the gospel of Good Living. You cannot make any god happy by fasting. Let us have good food, and let us have it well cooked — and it is a thousand times better to know how to cook than it is to understand any theology in the world.

Christianity—and Judaism, and Islam, which were also religions of The Book—required

are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself

We fail to embrace a oneness perspective rooted in kingdom theology, though, unless we, like Joshua, surrender to the truth that God's kingdom is not here to take sides. God's kingdom is not black. God's kingdom is not white. God's kingdom is not Hispanic. Nor is it Asian, Middle Eastern, or Indian. God did not come to take sides. God came to take over. And until we bow beneath the overarching rules set forth by the Ruler in

For, as Al-Qashani says, 'The fundamental ground of the possible things is non-existence. And existence is the Form of God. So if He did not appear in His Form, which is existence qua existence, the whole world would remain in pure non-existence'.

The face a smooth oval, unlined, serene, but a soft full mouth, tucked firmly in at the corners as though her sense of the ridiculous had survived years of relentless theology. Charming.

Discussion is to Christian philosophy what lab work is to the practice of biology.

theology is the serious and joyful attempt to live blessedly with others, before God, in Christ, through the Spirit

A theologian is one who prays—and stays awake.

Public theology is first and foremost a reaction against the tendency to privatize the faith, restricting it to the question of an individual's salvation. As we shall see in later chapters, the church is not a collection of saved individuals but the culmination of the plan of salvation: to create a people of God.

Pastor-theologians should not have to choose between a "social" and a "spiritual" gospel, for there is only one gospel (Gal. 1:6–7), "an eternal gospel" that concerns the heavens and the earth (Rev. 14:6). The

Para ministrar a palavra de Deus, os pastores-teólogos precisam ler não só a Bíblia, mas também o mundo ao qual a Palavra de Deus é dirigida, o mundo em que ela deve estabelecer e ser aplicada. (p. 153-4)

The basic gist: theology has been more or less banished from Jerusalem. Theology is in exile and, as a result, the knowledge of God is in ecclesial eclipse. The promised land, the gathered people of God, has consequently come to resemble a parched land: a land of wasted opportunities that no longer cultivates disciples as it did in the past.

Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy.

There is no proper way to discuss what God will do in the future unless we have our feet firmly planted in biblical teaching about what God has done in the past.