Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.
Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up...
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with the faith you inherited from your parents or constructed earlier in your life. As you sort through your dogma and doctrine...
The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputatio...
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.
I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.
All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
I would never speak about faith, but speak about the Lord himself - not theologically, as to the why and wherefore of his death - but as he showed himself in his life on earth, full of grace, love, beauty, tenderness and truth. Then the needy heart c...
Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
