Quotes About Theology

The final philosophy is the ontology of God.

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

I like Aristotle, but I don't agree with his cosmological argument about god.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

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As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.

Een oude theologische strijdmethode: een stelling poneren, zo belachelijk en dom, dat oppositie ertegen automatisch even belachelijk en dom wordt.

theology requires metaphors and concepts that come from our understanding of nature and therefore from science.

In the Angels there was no ????????? or Restoring. First, Because they Fell from the highest top of excellency: Secondly, because in the Fall of Angels, all the Angelical nature did not perish, but by the sin of the first Man all mankind did perish.

Doctrine is a Theological Axiom, either consisting in the express word of Scripture, or flowing from them by immediate consequence.

But in one thing I would go beyond strict orthodoxy - I am a convinced universalist. I believe that in the end all men will be gathered into the love of God.

Rightly understood, Christian theology has a pastoral dimension to its task. The agenda to be addressed by a well-formed theology is a broad one, but it certainly includes the deepest hopes and fears that arise out of the day-to-day concerns of the community of faith.

Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create Him.

be suspicious of any [theological] position that fulfills all our heart's desires.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.