Theology Quotes - Page 21

• Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The result is folk religion rather than classical, historical Christianity which has always included sound theology.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Feelings, Historical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• One of the things I try to do is take seriously some of the forms of American religion that people consider to be shallow and try and figure out why they have such a strong appeal and tease out the theology they actually represent.

  Ross Douthat

  Strong, People, Trying

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Teaching, Islamic, Saint

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When climate change gets some attention in a 100-page document, the most important parts of which will have to do with the theology of stewardship and the theology of "human ecology," it's almost certainly going to be rapturously embraced, or bitterly opposed, as a "global-warming encyclical," despite the evidence that it's much more broadly gauged than that.

  George Weigel

  Important, Climate, Attention

  Source: eppc.org

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• The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.

  George Weigel

  Vocabulary, Political, Argentina

  Source: eppc.org

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• My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.

  Anne Lamott

  School, Kids, Sunday

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Latin, Trying, Doe

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• I think Pope Francis is a guy who comes from a certain place in the world, and that shapes how he processes things. He's like a liberation theology guy, but I think that what he's done is focused the Catholic Church where it should be - on the poor.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Thinking, Guy, Catholic

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

  Agnes Repplier

  Blessed, Son, America

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• the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the beautiful house and car, if only you believe that you can. But ... if you don't have all that you want, if you feel sick, discouraged, or defeated, you have only yourself to blame. Positive theology ratifies and completes a world without beauty, transcendence, or mercy.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Beautiful, Believe, Defeated You

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• A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

  Hannah Arendt

  Animal, Reality, Ideas

  Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”

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• Science is the true theology.

  Thomas Paine

  Religion

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• God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religion, Sound, Splits

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

  Augustus William Hare

  May, Ancient, Substitutes

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.423

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• Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Philosophy, Food, Emotional

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

  Dorothee Solle

  Purpose, Conscious

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• Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Government, Defense, Legitimacy

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• Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Support, Imperfection

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of theology; I don't think much of it. In fact, in my view that's exactly the right analogy: notions like Marxism and Freudianism belong to the history of organized religion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Views, Analogies

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.227, The New Press

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• Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life.

  Lily Dougall

  Religion, Facts, Use

  Burnett Hillman Streeter, Arthur Clutton-Brock, Cyril William Emmet, James Arthur Hadfield, Lily Dougall (1922). “Immortality: An Essay in Discovery, Co-ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research”

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• when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.

  Lily Dougall

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Women, Feminist, Humanity

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• all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Religion, Definitions, Engaged

  Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1984). “Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Sex, Ambition, Biblical

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• He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.

  Frances Osborne

  Mistake, Men, Errors

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