Theology Quotes - Page 10

• No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

  John Stott

  Christian, Focus, Doe

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

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• The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Thinking, Spirit

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• Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

  Charles Colson

  Life Is, Midst, Mess

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• Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

  Larry Graham

  Religious, Healing, People

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• Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

  Christian Wiman

  Funny, Art, Paradox

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• We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary, Want, Results

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• The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One can believe only what one has perceived to be true from reasonable grounds, and consequently one must have the courage to continue doubting until one has found reliable grounds to satisfy the reason.

  Georg Hermes

  Believe, Doubt, Principles

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• Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

  David Pilbeam

  Peculiar, Paleontology, Study

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• 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.

  Hilda Phoebe Hudson

  Christian, Education, Math

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• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Ideas, Details

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• Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God, which seem at odds with their own spiritual traditions but have much in common with each other.

  Tony Campolo

  Spiritual, Odds, Islam

  Tony Campolo (2005). “Speaking My Mind: The Radical Evangelical Prophet Tackles the Tough Issues Christians Are Afraid to Face”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Years

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• When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

  John Haynes Holmes

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• When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Flower, Race, Dust

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• Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today.

  James H. Cone

  Love Is, Discipline, Important

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• Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the Church have now turned in upon themselves and substituted for the knowledge of God a search for the knowledge of self.

  David F. Wells

  Past, Self, People

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• Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

  William Ames

  Teaching, Doctrine

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• The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1988). “Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961”, p.84, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.

  Pat Condell

  Doctors, Medicine, Differences

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"God Bless Atheism", www.youtube.com. August 03, 2007.

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• A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.

  Herman Bavinck

  Heart, Speaks Out, Names

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• Theology is the logic of the Devil.

  Jose Bergamin

  Devil, Logic

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• The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Taken, Messages, Ethics

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• The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

  Adyashanti

  Love, Spiritual, Truth

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• More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.

  John Corapi

  Believe, Ignorance, Years

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

  John Burroughs

  Time, Garden, Atmosphere

  John Burroughs (1904). “The writings of John Burroughs”

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