Theology Quotes - Page 23

• I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Order

  "San Manuel Bueno, Mártir". Book by Miguel de Unamuno, 1933.

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• If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.

  George Henry Lewes

  Real, Philosophy, Views

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• The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we do - what we're really good at, which is - which is theology and morality.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Leaving, Church

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

  Sinclair Lewis

  White, Excuse, Priests

  "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 41, 1949.

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• Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don't), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Heaven, Jupiter

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• In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Church, Trends

  "Conversations with Robertson Davies". Book by Robertson Davies, "Author Says Messiah Could Be a Woman", 1989.

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• Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Christian, Views, Organization

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.52, Transaction Publishers

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• The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of "science" and the sphere of "the holy" is unbridgeable.

  Max Weber

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.154, Routledge

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• Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Hands

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.44, Northwestern University Press

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• The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific naturalism. These ideologies are on the way out. They are on the way out.

  William A. Dembski

  Light, Way, Should

  William A. Dembski (2002). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, p.14, InterVarsity Press

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• It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell us things about the world that are not only to our real advantage, but will never be revealed by science.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Real, World, Might

  Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.316, Cambridge University Press

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• The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.

  Christian Smith

  Opposites, Purpose, Lame

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• Theology is Classified Superstition.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Atheism, Superstitions, Positive Atheism

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• In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

  Johannes Kepler

  Philosophy, Atheism, Reason

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• Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.

  Eugenie Scott

  Art, Knowing, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And this shift from infallibilism to fallibilism has profound consequences not only for toleration, but also for the subordination of faith to reason and theology to philosophy.

  George H. Smith

  Philosophy, Profound, Atheism

  George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books

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• Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.

  Lucy Stone

  Wall, Clothes, Atheism

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• Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

  Gore Vidal

  Jesus, Names, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Terry Eagleton

  Ambitious, Arena, World

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• Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Levels, Music Is

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• I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.

  Vigen Guroian

  Prayer, Sleep, Garden

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• Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.

  Paul F. M. Zahl

  Common Sense, Starting Over, Together

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• As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

  Steve Chalke

  Art, Pain, Etc

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• Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  School, Ideas, Truth Is

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.53

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• Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.

  Francis Quarles

  Atheist, Philosophy, Journey

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.89

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