Quotes About Theology

the antagonism between Jewish messianism, which was political, and Christian messianism, which was religious…

I won't pretend that I've arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get puffed up with pride. But I'll tell you what deflates my arrogance and self-righteousness faster than anything else: trying to live whatever truth I have.

Ernest Renan decía en Vida de Jesús: "Hay una cosa que el teólogo no sabrá hacer jamás: historiar. La historia es esencialmente desinteresada. El teólogo tiene un interés: su dogma".

I don't know if God exists, but it would certainly be better for his reputation if he didn't

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

Anne Hutchinson's greatest crime, and the source of her power, was the series of weekly public meetings she held at her house to discuss Scripture and theology.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

L'établissement de la christologie a demandé quatre siècles. Elle a amené une fermentation inouï dans les esprits, troublés les conscience, ulcérés les moeurs.

la teología está más próxima a las inquietudes humanas que la física de partículas.

Dios no existe y si existe es la gran gonorrea.

If we think of Christian theology and ethics purely in terms of forgiveness, we will have neglected a central aspect of God's own character and will be in no position to understand the cross in its fullest dimension.

There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root; sins are the fruit.

Millions of young people are shifting from one side to the other. They are like unguided missiles filled with energy and ambition and yet somehow not "fitting in." Peer pressure leads them astray . . . [and] in thousands of churches they are led astray theologically.

In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they are drifting aimlessly, without compass or guide.

"The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob," not of philosophers and scholars.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the Church.... what is the use in a Pope, if there is no Devil?

Words like redemption, justification, glorification, and propitiation may sound theological, but they are not just for theologians. If they are found in the word of God, they are for all believers to know and understand to bring spiritual growth.

Holy theology arises from knees bend before the mystery of the divine child in the stable.

Religion often gets in the way of God.

The first hint of what is to come occurs near the end of Luther's obscurity. In September 1517 the dutiful Johann Rhau-Grunenberg publishes a one-page broadsheet by Luther with a boring title: A Disputation against Scholastic Theology. In his broadsheet, Luther ironically lists concise propositions to be argued over—a central practice of scholasticism—in order to criticize scholasticism itself, sort of like a poet writing a poem to criticize poetry.

But I can't understand a Yahweh , or a God , who could be all-powerful and all knowing and would allow the Nazi death camps and schizophrenia .

Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works.

But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always been all too ready for a fight.