Theology Quotes - Page 7

• I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.

  Jan Potocki

  Study, Reason, Creation

  Jan Potocki (2006). “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa”, p.495, Penguin UK

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• We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Tea, Needs

  "Pope Francis Insists Church Must Help Poor, Not ‘Speak Of Theology’" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2013.

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• Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation...we will never view the world the same way again.

  Christopher West

  Father, Views, Heaven

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• The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God--a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being--before ordinary people, we have gone wrong

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, People, Soul

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• Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.

  John D. Caputo

  Mean, Self, Water

  John D. Caputo (2007). “What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church”, p.131, Baker Academic

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• Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Information

  "Signs of intelligence: A primer on the discernment of intelligent design". Touchstone Magazine 12 (4), July/August, 1999.

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• I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Literature, Fields

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• Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine. It is a person, and his name is Jesus. That's the reason the Lord wants you to receive the abundance of grace, for to have the abundance of grace is to have the abundance of Jesus.

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Names, Grace

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• When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand... but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this Yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

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• I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

  Mark Twain

  Should Have, Ideas, Hinduism

  Mark Twain (1925). “The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]”

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• If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

  Deborah Lipstadt

  Sight, Generations, Culture

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• About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws

  Albert Einstein

  Liars, Believe, Thinking

  "Einstein and the poet". Book by William Hermanns, p. 132, 1983.

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• Biblical Theology...is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity...Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity.

  Geerhardus Vos

  Biblical, Progress, Exhibitions

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• In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither here nor there. Theology, at its best, can help to liberate us from our own anthropocentric limitations.

  Andrew Linzey

  Beautiful, Nature, Eye

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• A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

  Alan Hirsch

  Life, God, Christian

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• The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

  William A. Dembski

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Reality

  "Signs of intelligence: understanding intelligent design". Book by William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, March 2001.

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• It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.

  George Eldon Ladd

  Government, Age, Church

  George Eldon Ladd, Donald Alfred Hagner (1993). “A Theology of the New Testament”, p.579, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes that bring out the argumentation and background of the work, is thus very much to be welcomed.

  Peter Adamson

  Philosophical, Errors, Islam

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• Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.

  Mishka

  Christian, Sexy, Sadness

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• All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Action, Evangelism

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• Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Men, Law

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.104, InterVarsity Press

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• Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Leadership, Fall, Math

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• How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

  Bill Moyers

  Political, Soul, Democracy

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• I don't see why Christians should censor themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be heard. I disagree with the theology of many groups that I address; Jews, for example, who do not accept Jesus, or atheists.

  Gary Bauer

  Christian, Jesus, Atheist

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• In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

  Don Herold

  Devil, Males, Figures

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