Home / Quotes / Quote by James Luther Adams

Quote by James Luther Adams

“I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority.”

Quote by James Luther Adams

Author

James Luther Adams

James Luther Adams was an American theologian, philosopher, and writer whose life and work had a profound impact on 20th-century religious philosophy and theology. more

You May Also Like

“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.”

Accidents Being True

Book:The Prophethood of All Believers

Source: The Prophethood of All Believers

“We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology”

Social Religious Justice Movement Tradition Social Justice Theology Creeds Religious Traditions

Author:James Luther Adams

“Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of reality, and of those elements in reality that support or threaten meaningful existence.”

Reality Existence Support Demand Elements Conscious Meaningful Unconscious Conception Theologian

Author:James Luther Adams

“Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.”

Community Religious Effort Moral Direct Obligation Liberalism Establishment Moral Obligation

Book:On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society

Source: On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society

“Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require this. Rather we are bound by the shared recognition that when one person suffers, all suffer; when we violate one life, all lives are violated; when we pollute the earth, all living things are stained; when one nation threatens the security of another, it, too, becomes less secure; when we place the planet in mortal danger, we hazard the future of our own children as well as the children of our enemies.”

Wells Children Persons Doe Earth Together Suffering Nations Enemy Security Danger Planets Members Bounds Secure Recognition Mortals Living Things Hazards Commonwealth Specifics

Author:Forrest Church

“We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator. We take familiar images of power and expand them until they become big enough to encompass the divine.”

Enough Bigs Creation Divine Strive Creator Familiar

Author:Forrest Church

“Death is not a curse to be outwitted no matter the cost. Death is the natural pivot on which life turns, without which life as we know it could not be. A pro-life-support position is not always a pro-life position. When we can no longer hold on with purpose, to let go is to die with dignity and grace.”

Knows Matter Purpose Dies Turns Natural Support Grace Position Cost Letting Go Dignity Curse Pro Life

Author:Forrest Church

“We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.”

Humans Answers Common Destiny Share Source Spring Legacy Divides Creeds Magnificent Theological Sweeping Human Family Universalism Unitarian

Author:Forrest Church

“Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.”

Want Who You Are Be Who You Are

Book:Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow

Source: Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow

“I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.”

Struggle Embarrassing Shameful Meltdowns

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch