Quotes About Theology

Christian religion cannot abandon this supernaturalism without annihilating itself.

if the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one with the Godhead.

Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and forgive; he can do the one just because he can do the other.

Theology leads through soteriology to eschatology.

Without God all things go wrong, both in our living and in our thinking. The denial of the existence of God means the elevation of the creature into the place of God.

In case a dogma is not based on divine authority, it is wrong to call it by that name, and it should not have a place in the faith of the church.

Theology is about God and should reflect a doxological tone that glorifies him.

Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.

Without faith in the existence, the revelation, and the knowability of God, no religion is possible.

the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.

The peculiarity of the Christian religion as has been so often shown and acknowledged even by opponents,248 lies in the person of Christ.

From the start of its labors dogmatic theology is shrouded in mystery; it stands before God the incomprehensible One.

Calvin has a great aversion to theological speculation because he is convinced that things will go wrong when theology exceeds the limits of our knowledge of God.

The great renewal of the theological understanding of the Lutheran doctrine of justification in German and Scandinavian Lutheranism since 1917 has certainly influenced preaching. But it was not enough to keep us from offering sacrifices in the house of God to the heathen gods of nation and race.

80. What is God? The immutable or unalterable good. 81. What is man? An unchangeable evil.

Priest came with soggy offerings of comfort. God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.

Thomas More still has some credit with the king. And he has written him a letter, saying," he manages to smile, "that I am Wycliffe, Luther and Zwingli rolled together and tied up in string—one reformer stuffed inside another, as for a feast you might parcel a pheasant inside a chicken inside a goose.

Show me where it says, in the Bible, "Purgatory." Show me where it says "relics, monks, nuns." Show me where it says "Pope.

What does St. Paul mean when he says Jesus was made a little lower than the angels?

he and the cardinal agree it would be better if Luther had never been born, or better if he had been born more subtle.

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.