Quotes of: Theologies Keyword

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Karen Armstrong

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

Irving Babbitt

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Kenneth L. Pike

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

Brooke Bida

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 Burroughs

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

Time Enough for Love

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

Miroslav Volf

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Dinaw Mengestu

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

Krista Tippett

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?

E. O. Wilson

We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.

Francis A. Schaeffer

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

Carrie Newcomer

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Stanley Hauerwas

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Vidal Sassoon

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

Baron d'Holbach

Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study.

Work

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

Sam Harris

When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be in the second century and: (1) because of the consolidation of ecclesial power in the hands of monarchial bishops and ot...

Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper

Finally, Lutheran and Reformed traditions distinguish (without separating) three uses of the law: the first (pedagogical), to expose our guilt and corruption, driving us to Christ; the second, a civil use to restrain public vice; and the third, to gu...

Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

Evangelical Theology