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“Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.”
“Theology, dogma, doctrine, materialism, politics and money have created a vast dark cloud between the churches and God”
Source: Problems of Humanity
“Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.”
Source: Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life
“Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?”
“Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.”
“Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.”
“Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.”
Source: The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
“Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.”
“Theology is a study of the series of disagreements that are the world's religions. Atheism fundamentally disagrees with these disagreements that preceded it.”
“Theology is a subject without an object”
“Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.”
Source: Some Mistakes of Moses
“Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.”
Source: The Philistine
“Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does; god's firewalls are so strong no attempt has ever been successful.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.”
Source: The essence of Christianity
“Theology is Classified Superstition.”
“Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.”
“Theology is ignorance with wings.”
“Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.”
Source: How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
“Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what is perceived to be revelation, but, at the same time, that theology can have a pretentiousness, or double pretentiousness, if it is acontextual as opposed to contextual, if it is foundationalist as opposed to antifoundationalist, or ahistorical as opposed to historicist.”
“Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.”
“Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“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.”
Source: Job, a Comedy of Justice
“Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.”
Source: God In Action: Theological Addresses
“Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.”
“Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Theology is only thought applied to religion.”
“Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.”
“Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.”
“Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.”
“Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.”
“Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.”
“Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.”
“Theology is the logic of the Devil.”
“Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.”
“Theology is the science of the divine lie.”
Source: Michael Bakunin: From out of the dustbin
“Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God's special revelation.”
Source: Teaching for Spiritual Growth
“Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.”
“Theology is unnecessary.”
“Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a clam, because you have denied its unique and separate identity, its inviolate holiness.”
“Theology made no provision for evolution.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“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?”
“Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.”
Source: Systematic Theology
“Theology must have the character of a living procession.”
“Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.”
Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays
“Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.”