Quotes About Theology

But like a lot of theologies it can do duty as a cracked mirror or a smudged lens through which we might be able to glimpse things that are informative.

Jake's opinion is based on a theology I do not agree with. But like a lot of theologies it can do duty as a cracked mirror or a smudged lens through which we might be able to glimpse things that are informative.

Here is the central error of most human theology: You think that one day you are going to meet God. You imagine that you are one day going to get back Home. You are not going to get back Home. You never left Home.

As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it's not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people - theologians as well scientists - have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing to scientific discovery. In every single case.

What happened before all this? What happened before the beginning? Astrophysicists have no idea. Or, rather, our most creative ideas have little or no grounding in experimental science. In response, some religious people assert, with a tinge of righteousness, that something must have started it all: a force greater than all others, a source from which everything issues. A prime mover. In the mind of such a person, that something is, of course, God.

If you get any two evangelicals together, you will have at least three opinions! I

The issues we address do not pit the Wesleyan against the Calvinist or the evangelical against the charismatic. This is not to say that these are not important issues, because they are and will remain so until the Lord comes back. But they are not issues that we are going to allow Satan to use as a point of division.

In Concerning the Trinity, Richard argued that the statement "God is love" requires God to be a Trinity; love must be a relationship between persons, and where two persons love each other perfectly, they will desire a third person whom they can both love in common.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.

Après l'avoir condamnée, l'Église a fait de la pensée de Thomas d'Aquin sa doctrine officielle. Elle lui a assuré à la fois une gloire sans égale mais l'a aussi enfermée dans une espèce d'enfer dogmatique dont il n'est pas sûr qu'elle soit aujourd'hui sortie.

Comme la théologie chrétienne, la tradition rabbinique distingue 4 niveaux de lecture de la loi : - le sens littéral ; - le sens allusif (métaphorique) ; - le sens profond (moral, religieux) ; - le sens secret (ésotérique, mystique)

scripture. Yet a bit of reflection on orthodox Christian theology makes clear that numerous absolutely crucial doctrinal terms are not themselves found in the Bible but were invented or appropriated by the church during the patristic era.

Biblicism, I have said, is impossible. But there are other approaches—including outright liberalism—that I think are even worse.

Origen himself warned that in "advanced matters of theology absolute confidence is possible only for two classes of people, saints and idiots.

Gregory's words remain a sharp and timely rebuke to the continuing temptation to practice theology as though we could separate the exercise of our mind from the development of our character.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

If one must have faith in order to believe in something, then the likelihood of that something having any truth or value is considerably diminished. The harder work of inquiry, proof, and demonstration is infinitely more rewarding and has confronted us with findings far more miraculous and transcendent than any theology.

Thus the mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

the razor of Ockham is clean and decisive.

Reason is the Devil's harlot, who can do nought but slander and harm whatever God says and does. —MARTIN LUTHER

Richard Dawkins may have phrased it most pungently when he argued that everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god—from Ra to Shiva—in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

Abd al-Aziz bin Baz, the late grand mufti of Saudi Arabia