Theology Quotes

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

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

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.