Quotes About Theology

faith presupposes reason and perfects it, and reason, enlightened by faith, finds the strength to rise to knowledge of God and spiritual realities'.15 For Ratzinger, faith and reason, theology and philosophy, are symbiotically, and not extrinsic-ally, related. Faith without reason ends in fideism, but reason without faith ends in nihilism.

That significance is not founded in their historicity but in their theology; not in what happened (or even that something did happen) but in why it happened. What was God doing? That is where the significance is to be found.

as Childs points out, we first need to hear the "discrete voice" of the OT, we must then go on to read the OT from a post-Christ perspective.

God is neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral, he is unmoral;

Rodney Stark puts it this way: "To expect to learn anything about important theological problems from Richard Dawkins or Daniel Dennett is like expecting to learn about medieval history from someone who had only read Robin Hood.

He considers them to be both out of their depth and misrepresenters of the Christian faith: "they invariably come up with vulgar caricatures of religious faith that would make a first-year theology student wince.

As Paul Tillich explains, "Either love is something other than emotion or the Great Commandment is meaningless."6 When

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

What are they fighting about?" Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. "They're arguing scripture." "Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

Calvin offers neither biblical nor rational proof for his (Augustine's) theory. In typical fashion, he mocks what he calls "the slanders of the ungodly" as though anyone who disagrees with him and Augustine is necessarily ungodly. Such would be his attitude toward many today who, professing a more moderate position, call themselves four-point or three-point Calvinists.

As already noted, Of eighty popes in a line from the thirteenth century on not one of them disapproved of the theology and apparatus of the Inquisition. On the contrary, one after another added his own cruel touches to the workings of this deadly machine.

naïveté is the last true terrible sin in the theology of millennial America.

It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.

This is reality in a universe without God: there is no hope; there is no purpose. It reminds me of T.S. Eliot's haunting lines: This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. What is true of mankind as a whole is true of each of us individually: we are here to no purpose. If there is no God, then our life is not fundamentally different from that of a dog.

God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists.

If God is dead, then man is dead too.

I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories provide evidence for theologically neutral premises in philosophical arguments leading to a conclusion that has theistic significance.

This is one reason Eugene was so (frustratingly) reluctant to dispense advice, why he so detested celebrity: he knew these postures of the ego-driven expert were lies and illusions. And this is why Eugene would rather pray with someone than argue theology, why he'd be eager for a call from his neighbor while letting prominent figures go to his answering machine: friendship (with God and one another) is real.

Spiritual theology is what pastors do—give themselves to getting what we know about God/Jesus lived in the round of ordinary life.