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“I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.”

“Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the Church have now turned in upon themselves and substituted for the knowledge of God a search for the knowledge of self.”

People Littles Self Matter Past Church Tasks Theology Self Knowledge Embarrassing Knowledge Of God Brokers Truth Of God Little Knowledge

Author:David F. Wells

“Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.”

Teaching Theology Doctrine

Author:William Ames

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.”

Source: Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961

“What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.”

Wells Might Differences Drug Doctors Medicine Theology

Author:Pat Condell

“A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It is a priestly ministration in the house of the Lord. It is itself a service of worship, a consecration of mind and heart to the honour of His name.”

Mind Heart Persons House Names Speak Lord Holy Worship Theology Working It Honour Heart And Mind Theologian Speaks Out Consecration

Author:Herman Bavinck

“Theology is the logic of the Devil.”

Devil Logic Theology

Author:Jose Bergamin

“I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.”

Ifs Knows Feelings Kids Religion Choices Jesus Christianity Know How Window Glasses Theology Missionary Feeding Starving Evangelism Haiti Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Tony Campolo

“Mission is 'the mother of theology'.”

Mother Missions Theology

Author:Martin Kahler

“Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.”

Philosophy Secret Attention Moral Mankind Morality Activity Ethics Concern Theology Jurisdiction

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.”

Helping Christian Spirit Church Levels Holy Authority Crisis Theology Holy Spirit Sole Inward Powerlessness Dogmatic Recourse

Author:James K. Baxter

“The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.”

Taken Messages Ethics Mere Guides Accepted Theology Deliverance Canon

Author:Alexander MacLaren

“The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.”

Love Philosophy Truth Spiritual Theology Emptiness Intricacy Just A Thought

Author:Adyashanti

“More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.”

Knows Way Years Believe Persons Hard Born Ignorance Worship Sitting Catholic Finals University Theology Discussion Do You Know Classroom Twelve Misunderstanding Hard Way Doctorates Retorts

Author:John Corapi

“The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.”

Age Time Spirituality Garden Theology Atmosphere Our Time Gardening

Book:The writings of John Burroughs

Source: The writings of John Burroughs

“Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.”

Humans Seems Divine Theology Ingenuity Substitution Divine Wisdom

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.”

Writing Has Beens Christian Lasts Causes Christ Christianity Forever Rocks Danger Theology Principal Defects Christian Theology True Christianity

Author:Ernest Renan

“Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.”

Should Sound Transformation Theology Doxology

Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.”

Made Used Jesus Christ Clear Teaching Jesus Christ Theology Made It Liberation Analysis Marxist John Paul John Paul Ii

Author:Claudio Hummes

“I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.”

Knows War Christian Lost Enemy Theology Know Me Christian Theology Unification Church

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.”

Littles Church Too Much Theology

Author:Lewis Tappan

“If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.”

Ifs War Done Use Language President Serious Iraq Theology Discussion

Author:Jim Wallis

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

Believe Normal Theology Statements Discourse

Book:Selected writings: To commemorate the 60th birthday of Kenneth Lee Pike

Source: Selected writings: To commemorate the 60th birthday of Kenneth Lee Pike

“There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.”

Theology Theologian

Author:Athenagoras I of Constantinople

“I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.”

People Kind Philosophy Fiction Theology All Kinds Biographies

Author:Al Sharpton

“Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.”

Thinking Years Stills Lasts Crisis Theology Times Of Crisis

Author:Godfried Danneels

“For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.”

World Honesty Integrity Intellectual Adults Western Convinced Decades Pursuit Theology Engaged Honesty And Integrity Intellectual Honesty

Book:Evolution: The Disguised Friend of Faith?

Source: Evolution: The Disguised Friend of Faith?

“It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.”

Humans Kind Has Beens Seems Personality Reflection Ideals Notion Obvious Mythology Theology Projection Human Personality

Author:Alfred Loisy

“I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.”

Ifs Giving Feels May Happens Christian Political Return Deeper Theology Encounters Anti Semitism

Author:Lionel Blue

“I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.”

Thinking Needs Giving Should Trying Different Sometimes Creation Concepts Scientist Theology Doctrine Temptation Distinction Cosmology

Author:John Polkinghorne

“Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.”

Has Beens Philosophy Common Revolution Discipline Areas Theology Discussion Fixed Council Chaotic Vatican Ii

Author:Godfried Danneels

“If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind States Used Doubt Atheism Theology No Doubt Collections State Of Mind Meaningless Chimera

Author:Leslie Stephen

“MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.”

May Mean Persons Language Development Degrees Highest Theology Contribution Unbelievers

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.”

Law Poor Rich Violence Function Theology Stolen Cunning

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.”

“Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.”

Christian Prayer Offers Scientist Miracle Experiments Theology Arrangements

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.”

Source: One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country

“Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.”

Reality Christian Faith Theology Gaps

Book:Believing God

Source: Believing God

“Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.”

Different Religion Theology Certainty Revelations Different Things Theologian

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.”

World Different Enemy Class Technology Conflict Computer Theology Elites Different Worlds Techno Class Conflict

Author:Walt Mossberg

“The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.”

Knows Reason Philosophy Desire Causes Divine Highest Ultimate Delight Seeds Senses Theology Contemplation Implicit

Author:Josef Pieper

“Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.”

Mean Doe Speak Danger Strange Offers Demand Speech Senses Theology Permit Strict Discourse Essays Theological Jubilation

Author:Jean-Luc Marion

“If we believe in a theology that doesn't contain doing the works of Jesus, we will not have a practice of Signs & Wonders.”

Ifs Believe Jesus Wonder Practice Theology

Author:John Wimber

“Our passion is to imitate the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. This requires we must follow Jesus out of baptismal waters, through our personal deserts, and into the harvest. We want to take the ammunition of the balanced evangelical theology with the fire power of Pentecostal practice, loading & readying the best of both worlds to hit the target of making & nurturing disciples.”

World Want Spirit Passion Jesus Water Practice Fire Theology Desert Target Balanced Ministry Disciple Harvest Nurturing Evangelical Ammunition Best Of Both Worlds Pentecostal

Author:John Wimber

“I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.”

Reason Study Creation Creator Theology

Book:The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

Source: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

“In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.”

Important Prove Devil Important Things Theology

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.”

Moving Interesting Ethics Theology

Author:Russell Kirk

“Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.”

Interest Church Theology Telling The Truth Priests Vested Interests

Author:Lerone Bennett, Jr.

“Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.”

Sin Female Originals Males Theology Original Sin

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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