Quotes About Theology

Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day" (Quran 9:29), kill

The incarnation of Christ is a major stumbling block for Muslims.

Bakunin: 'Even if God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Both ministers said their theology was "love." "Love is the doctrine of our church," said Liz. "Love is the thread of the interconnected web," said Phoebe. Both ministers said they attended all committee meetings and most social justice activities. No wonder these women's sermons were so flat: when did they have the time to read and study, think deeply, and hammer out sentences?

I could go into some detail about the theological and class differences between the two groups but suffice it to say that Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Unitarian and P. T. Barnum a Universalist.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to."

Theology, it turns out, is Satan's favorite game.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Like parodies of themselves, theological notions are reflected in the triviality of our lives.

1. Theology is important because correct doctrinal beliefs are essential to the relationship between the believer and God.

3. Theology is needful because of the large number of alternatives and challenges abroad at the present time.

John said, "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us" (John 1:14). John was particularly emphatic on this matter in his first letter, one of the purposes of which was to combat a heresy that denied that Jesus had been genuinely human: "Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God" (1 John 4:2–3).

Theology is needful because of the large number of alternatives and challenges abroad at the present

it is hard for theology to persist when it has forgotten its purpose: to critically discern, articulate, and commend visions of the true life in light of the person, life, and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Spontaneous prayer, sincerely expressed, may be a very important way to speak to the Lord. However, the prayers that we have received from the Church are important ways of teaching us how to pray in theologically correct ways and may even be superior if our spontaneous prayers express untrue notions of God or our relationship to him.

A postmodern womanist theology can explain why salvation is found both among black women braiding hair in a church on a rainy night and black women dancing to a drumbeat in an old warehouse on a sunny Sunday morning.

Who cares about theology except the theologians? We are necessary, but less important than we think. The Church is Christ—Christ and the people. And all the people want to know is whether or not there is a God, and what is His relation with them, and how they can get back to Him when they stray.

Paleontology of conservatism and theology of morality. All this is a thing of the past, since the world inevitably goes into the shell of a black hole of selfishness.

The concept of predestination takes away the true meaning of the day of judgment.

The fruit was only mentioned after the creation of Adam. This means you will never hear angels fighting over food in heaven.

Theologians have done more harm than religious beliefs. Just as metaphysicians have confused our minds with abstract concepts.

They say the devil is only antichrist, but why not also anti-God?

What kind of God would wait for billions of years before sending someone in the world to be killed for the sins of the people?

Paul developed something we can appropriately call his 'theology', a radical mutation in the core beliefs of his Jewish world, because only so could he sustain what we can appropriately call the 'worldview' which he held himself and which he longed for his churches to hold as well.