Quotes About Theology

In brief, the Tree of Life is a compendium of science, psychology, philosophy and theology.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

There has always been philosophical speculation on the question, What if there were no God? Keller thinks as he walks through the slush. But no one has really asked, much less answered, the question, What if there were no Satan?

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

When spirituality is divorced from theology it speedily deteriorates into sentimentality.

Spirituality is inseparable from theology. Indeed, it could be defined as the living out of theology.

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.

What Martin Luther said: Faith resides under the left nipple.

The Shallow Faith of the Founding Fathers The founding fathers were politicians and philosophers, churchmen and doubters. They were well acquainted with history, theology,

Music has its own distinctive contribution to make to theology precisely because it is a distinctive human practice.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

God is either good and not all powerful, or He is powerful and not all good. You can't have it both ways.

So while the Bible asserts both God's sovereignty and people's freedom and moral responsibility, it never attempts to explain their relationship.

there is no conflict in the Bible between His sovereignty and our responsibility.

Then suddenly—or so it seemed to me—in the past two years Calvinism began emerging as an issue everywhere. Perhaps I am just waking up, but it seems to me that this peculiar doctrine is being promoted far more widely and aggressively now than I was ever aware in the past.4

Since Protestant theology makes no claim that the Bible is crystal clear beyond that minimal knowledge necessary for salvation, it implicitly acknowledges that Christians may differ without having to accuse each other of intellectual weakness or moral corruption.

Where Calvinism and Arminianism may lie on a map in relation to this or that heresy generates an interesting discussion but little illumination.

However, it does seem theologically objectionable to think God's attitude toward us would change in anything like this manner merely because we had died. There is no obvious reason why justice requires God to cease having mercy at death and to punish those who have not repented by that time.

Southern Baptists are at a crossroads. We have a choice to make. The choice is between the deep-rooted, God-centered theology of evangelical Calvinism and the man-centered, unstable theology of the other perspectives present in the convention."7

The most insistently reductive, device-like models of living creatures, models that left their unmistakable mark on Darwinism,relied upon a theology, a supernatural power to provide meaning and purpose.

Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love.

Protestantism and Calvinism, while giving expression to a new feeling of freedom, at the same time constituted an escape from the burden of freedom