“The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.” MindShowsLanguageRaceChristianityStudyElementsUniversalClimateTheologyTraditionalLimitationZoneSignificanceBrotherhoodGlobesLiberatingTranscendentLatitudeLatitude And Longitude Author:Amos Bronson Alcott
“Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.” CountryFeelingsLightAmericaCultureChurchChristianityIntelligentHeavyPopsScriptureTheologyDoctrineOur CountryInterpretationExtensionsTherapeuticDamnation Author:Ilana Mercer
“Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.” ChurchChristianityAtheismWallClothesCorruptionPositive AtheismGravesTheologyBuriedNothingness Author:Lucy Stone
“Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.” StrongDifferencesChristianityOpinionIssuesGroupsPositionSeriousIntellectualTheologyTendenciesDiscussionBiasControversyTheologicalDifferences Of Opinion Author:Bill Vaughan
“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.” PeopleHas BeensWarHandsPoliticalReligiousChristianityPracticeGoneEconomicEventsBuddhismHolyConcernedEternityViolentTheologyOppressionObsessedHinduismConsistentlyImperialismJudaismHumaneHand In HandHoly WarProselytizingHinduism And Buddhism Author:Aldous Huxley
“Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth century; a theology which regarded Christianity as an admirable auxiliary to the police force, and a principle of decorum and of cohesion in society, but which carefully banished from it all enthusiasm, veiled or attenuated all its mysteries, and virtually reduced it to an authoritative system of moral philosophy.” PhilosophyFatherForceMoralChristianityPrinciplesMysteryAtheismCenturyColdPolicePositive AtheismTheologyEnthusiasmToneAdmirableCohesionMoral PhilosophyDecorumPolice Force Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky
“Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” MeanIdeasWholeFactsFormChristReligiousSinChristianityGraceSubjectsObjectsFollowingTheologyAbstractConceptionDiscipleshipSuperfluousAdherenceForgiveness Of SinsFollowing Christ Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.” FallChristianityDangerTheologyLoftyEthereal Author:Charles Spurgeon
“Religion does a lot of good, especially the loving kind, like at Grace Church. I know people who went to a more liberal kind of Christianity and were happy with that. The problem is, for me, there was a process involved in moving from Pentecostalism to a more liberal theology, like Grace Church. What makes me different is that process didn't stop, and it took me all the way. In the end, I couldn't help feeling that all religion, even the most loving kind, is just a speed bump in the progress of the human race.” PeopleKnowsWayHumansKindDoeDifferentEndsHelpingFeelingsProblemMovingProcessChurchRaceChristianityGraceProgressInvolvedSpeedTheologyHuman RaceBumpsSpeed Bumps Author:Jerry DeWitt
“We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline and a divine militancy coming upon the people of God. Those who have succumbed to humanistic and idealistic theologies may have a hard time with this, but we must understand that God is a military God. The title that he uses ten times more than any other is "the Lord of Hosts", or "Lord of armies". There is a martial aspect to his character that we must understand and embrace for the times and the job to which we are now coming.” PeopleMayHardCharacterUseChristianJobsChristianityLordMilitaryDivineDisciplineTenAspectArmyEmbraceCeaseTheologyTitlesMaturityHard TimesHostPassiveIdealisticHumanisticMilitancy Author:Rick Joyner
“If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your own God. That leads us to something that unfortunately has crept into many churches across America, and it is what I call the Social Gospel. The social gospel, that could creep into something that is called Liberation Theology, which is a mixture of leftist, pseudo-Christianity with Marxism.” IfsBelieveLooksAmericaSocialChurchChristianityAtheismPhilosophicalFoundationHumanismTheologyLiberationSecularMixturesMarxismCreepsStandpointLeftistsPseudoSecular Humanism Author:Ted Cruz
“Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children, and gays), it is also the case that Christian theology, when creatively and critically handled, can provide a strong basis for animal rights.” ChildrenDoeSaidChristianStrongAnimalPoorChristianityCasesRecordsRightsGayBasesSlaveTheologyTreatmentAnimal RightsChristian Theology Author:Andrew Linzey
“I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.” KindLongBookDifferentChristianChristianityStudyNicePicksMereTheologyJust OneWatersheds Author:Max Lucado
“Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The result is folk religion rather than classical, historical Christianity which has always included sound theology.” FeelingsCareChristianSoundResultsChristianityMoralityHistoricalFolksDon't CareTheologyWorldviewZeitgeist Author:Roger E. Olson
“Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some Christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. People attempt to take possession of God. Theology claims to explain everything, including the being of God. People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.” PeopleTryingSaidShowsChristianReligionChristianityPositionHolyDemandClaimsIncludingPossessionTheologyRadicalUncomfortableRevelationsChristian Faith Author:Jacques Ellul
“I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.” HumansWould BeReligionRaceChristianityImagineImpossibleDisasterTheologyHuman Race Author:Alfred North Whitehead