Quotes About Theology

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

Looking at the Bible, it would seem that God is just a more highly evolved human.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God, humankind, the fall, and redemption.

Hell is God's Absence.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

We worship a mysterious not an anthropomorphic God.

Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.