Theology Quotes

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.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.

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.

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

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

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.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Theology is anthropology.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.

Theology is unnecessary.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

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.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.