Quotes About Theology

I am grateful that you brought me to Jesus but clueless about how you actually change your sons and daughters—I suffered much under the hands of bad theologies, man-centered remedies, and Christless formulas.

I believe that the teaching of evolution and science is best served by promoting the scientific method and scientific knowledge and not by attacking religious views. The latter is a futile, counterproductive batte. However, I also believe, as many denominations have also concluded, that religion is better served by promoting and evolving its respective teachings and theologies, and not by attacking science, which is definitely a losing strategy

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey

I'm subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time is, I arrive at the pearly gates and the first thing I'm asked is where I went to college.

The Newtonian God—the God who made a clock-like universe, wound it, and withdrew—died a long time ago. This is what Nietzsche meant and this is the God who is being observed.

The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

To say "I am going to church" both reveals and promotes bad theology.

Some Christian writers have argued that the plurality of elohim is a definite indication of the Trinity. This writer, however, believes this is more a result of "reading back" into the text, a conclusion in search of an exegetical base.

theology, the doctrine of God, which is always attacked and ridiculed by philosophy, which claims to be wisdom itself. And medicine, which always questions the validity of philosophy, and doesn't consider theology a science but a superstition…

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom St. Jerome

de la misma manera en que nació la teología que negaba la existencia de Dios, existe ya una golemología que niega mi existencia, y cuyos defensores me consideran una estafa preparada por los informáticos del MIT, que, para ellos, son quienes en secreto programan estas conferencias. Aunque Dios permanece en silencio y yo hablo, no demostraré la autenticidad de mi existencia, ni siquiera mediante milagros, porque incluso estos podrían malinterpretarse.

Unease flickered in his eyes. "It's not so straightforward," I said in a deliberately light tone. "I don't mean the traditional God of terrestrial beliefs. I'm no specialist in religion, and I may not have come up with anything new, but do you happen to know if there ever existed a faith in… a defective God?

Witchcraft has always been a religion of poetry, not theology. The myths, legends, and teachings are recognized as metaphors for "That-Which-Cannot-Be-Told," the absolute reality our limited minds can never completely know.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?