Quotes About Theology

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

On the first day, man created God

No the first day, man crea tee God

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." ALBERT EINSTEIN

The question we must ask today is "Do we get Jesus?" or have we substituted false portraits of him in our theology?

It is as if the time has come for us to play 'Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?'  It is important because it is apparent we do not all follow the same Jesus.  Why is that?  I intend to show you that certain philosophical and theological assumptions, structuring principles and interpretive grids, blind us from seeing what is right there in front of our eyes.  Or rather, who is right there. 

Page 278: As Talmudic scholar Jacob Neusner observes: "theologically and historically, there is no such thing as the Judeo-Christian tradition. It's a secular myth favored by people who are not really believers themselves.

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.

We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension but unlike us no limits. But we do not know either the existence or the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

What must I do? I see nothing but obscurities on every side.' 'Shall I believe I am nothing? Shall I believe I am God?

God is or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Let us weigh the gain and the lose in wagering that God is. Let us estimate the two changes. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, lose nothing. Wager then without any hesitation that He is

É impossível compreender que Deus exista, e é também impossível compreender que não exista; que a alma esteja unida ao corpo, e que não exista alma; que o mundo tenha sido criado, e que não tenha sido criado...

The church has had as much difficulty in proving that Jesus was man, against those who denied it, as in proving that he was God, and both were equally evident.