Quotes About Theology

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

Nicaea really was, after all, a sort of "coming of age" for the Church—and like many adolescents, she hesitated to leave childhood behind.

Faithful Christians must work for social justice, but can only do so in the context of fidelity to the full Christian moral and theological vision through which we understand the meaning of justice. Any social justice campaign that implies that the God of the Bible is an enemy of man and his happiness is fraudulent and must be rejected.

nominalismo. Lo que en su día fue una teoría radical, con el tiempo pasó a ser la base del modo en el que la mayoría de la gente entendía la relación entre Dios y la creación. Hizo posible el mundo moderno, pero, como veremos, también sembró el terreno para que el hombre derrocara a Dios y se sentara en su trono.

Medieval metaphysicians believed nature pointed to God. Nominalists did not.

Christianity and communism—which is to say, the most radical form of progressivism—are best understood as competing religions. Despite the self-delusions of theologically progressive Christians, so too are Christianity and the easygoing nihilism that characterizes progressivism in our post-Christian era.

The Orthodox, in reply, claimed that the addition was theologically untrue; that the Holy Spirit proceeds only from the Father, and to add the name of the Son was heretical. Such issues were the stuff of riots within Constantinople.

Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

If God's love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially from Jesus Christ), then the term is simply meaningless when attached to God. One might as well say "God is creech-creech"—a meaningless assertion.

Traditional Arminian theology says that in and through the cross of Christ the sin of Adam inherited by all was forgiven (Romans 5) so that people are only condemnable for their own sins. The cross completely removes every obstacle to every human being's salvation except their own resistance to God's freely offered grace, which is given to all in some measure but especially through the preaching of the Word.

Arminian theology does affirm divine election, but it interprets it as corporate rather than individual.

I once informed a leading evangelical theologian that his newly published systematic theology is thoroughly Arminian even though he never uses the term. His response was, "Yes, but don't tell anyone!

It is not uncommon to hear Arminians describe themselves as "moderately Reformed" in order to ingratiate themselves to the movers and shakers of the evangelical movement.

Taken to their logical conclusion, that even hell and all who will suffer there eternally are foreordained by God, God is thereby rendered morally ambiguous at best and a moral monster at worst.

no theology is worth believing that cannot be preached standing in front of the gates of Auschwitz.

People who say that Calvinists teach predestination and deny free will, and that Arminians deny predestination and teach free will are simply wrong.

Arminianism teaches that all humans are born morally and spiritual depraved, and helpless to do anything good or worthy in God's sight without a special infusion of God's grace to overcome the affects of original sin.

the decreasing demands in other areas were as important, and probably more so, for reducing the commitment of Catholics. As lannaccone (1994, p. 1204) has commented, the Catholic church "managed to arrive at a remarkable, 'worst of both worlds' position-discarding cherished distinctiveness in the areas of liturgy, theology, and life-style, while at the same time maintaining the very demands that its members and clergy are least willing to accept.

I began to discover that my healing theology of twenty years was not really based on Scripture, but on my erratic healing experiences and what others had taught from their erratic experiences. Because my experiences had matched theirs, I accepted what I heard as being the truth, without serious examination and comparison with Scripture.

Fidelity to the whole of revealed truth is what distinguished good theology from its counterfeits.

Does the fact that Jesus is called the "one Lord" in this verse mean that the Father (Jehovah) is not Lord? (He will say no. Share the above verses with him.)

Theology that does not touch the heart—that does not resonate with your inner spirit so that it changes you—has failed at its task.

The book of Genesis was written by Moses between 1445 and 1405 BC and is foundational to a proper understanding of the rest of the Bible.