Quotes About Theology

The theology that matters is not the theology we profess but the theology we practice.

We can pride ourselves on not letting our theology be infected by worldly ideas, but all the time our lives can be infected by worldly priorities. We can live for the treasure of earth and seek our security in that.

Al igual que la iglesia deja de ser iglesia si no es misionera, la teología deja de ser teología si pierde su carácter misionero.

Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him - who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only?

He doubts everything, and contests each point of theology as if it were required to meet the same tests of logic and consistency that prevail in the world of science." "In other words, he expects your doctrines to make sense.

God was not interested in our theology but only in our silence.

I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him.

He had asked her if she believed in an afterlife and she said that she did not discount such a thing. That it could be. She just doubted that it could be for her. If there was a heaven, was it not founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned? Lastly she said that God was not interested in our theology but only in our silence.

she said that God was not interested in our theology but only in our silence.

Lastly she said that God was not interested in our theology but only in our silence.

What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

this noticeable in the South, where theology and religious philosophy are on this account a long way behind the North, and where the religion of the poor whites is a plain copy of Negro thought and methods.

The evolutionary facts about the emergence of man, e.g., the sudden appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro-Magnon man) no more than 35 thousand years ago, are as spectacular as the account in Genesis and allow hardly less room for theology.

God's transcendence is at an end. But he is not dead; he has been incorporated into human existence.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation

This is largely because he felt it was futile to wrestle with theological questions about which he had no empirical evidence and thus no rational basis for forming an opinion. Thunderbolts from heaven were, for him, something to be captured by a kite string and studied. As

Theology is not superior to the Gospel. It exists to aid the preaching of salvation. Its business is to make the essential facts and principles of Christianity so simple and clear, so adequate and mighty, that all who preach or teach the Gospel, both ministers and laymen, can draw on its stores and deliver a complete and unclouded Christian message.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

It is plain that complete havoc must be made of the whole system of revealed truth, unless we consent to derive our philosophy from the Bible, instead of explaining the Bible by our philosophy.

Fourth, Such is evidently the will of God. He does not teach men astronomy or chemistry, but He gives them the facts out of which those sciences are constructed. Neither does He teach us systematic theology, but He gives us in the Bible the truths which, properly understood and arranged, constitute the science of theology. As the facts of nature are all related and determined by physical laws, so the facts of the Bible are all related and determined by the nature of God and of his creatures.

If the facts of Scripture are what Augustinians believe them to be, then the Augustinian system is the only possible system of theology. If those facts be what Romanists or Remonstrants take them to be, then their system is the only true one. It is important that the theologian should know his place. He is not master of the situation. He can no more construct a system of theology to suit his fancy, than the astronomer can adjust the mechanism of the heavens according to his own good pleasure.

Theology, therefore, is the exhibition of the facts of Scripture in their proper order and relation, with the principles or general truths involved in the facts themselves, and which pervade and harmonize the whole.