73 Theology Quotes for You to Enjoy

Once upon a time, science, philosophy, and theology were disciplines largely undifferentiated from one another, and proving the existence of God was a fairly commonplace intellectual exercise. But as the scientific method became increasingly refined, particularly through the nineteenth century, science and religion grew apart. Benjamin Wittes

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The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level. Benjamin Wittes

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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. Claudio Hummes

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Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology. David Novak

Moral Morality Implications Always Theology

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

God Thoughts Bible Made Important Evolution Could Had Missed Most Revelation Were Provision Privy Authors The Most Important Really Theology

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church. Eugene Kennedy

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I don't think I've been to any country where everybody was supportive - there's always churches or groups who don't like my theology or that we associate with this group or that group. Franklin Graham

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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul. Hans Kung

Important Extremely Synthesis Romans Paul Epistle Theology Whole

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. Harold Bloom

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Theology is a science of mind applied to God. Henry Ward Beecher

God Science Mind Theology Applied

Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I'm trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do. Jay Parini

My degree in theology was an important part of my formation. Jeff Fortenberry

Degree Important Part Important Part Formation Theology

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. Jeremy Taylor

Life Best Knowledge Rather Divine Than Theology

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.' Jimmy Carter

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The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. John Frame

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. John Gresham Machen

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Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful. John Polkinghorne

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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. Julia Ward Howe

Wisdom Me Seems General Divine Human Substitution Ingenuity Theology

In one sense, I wanted to study philosophy and theology, getting into the history of the Bible. I went through that for, like, two years while I took a desk job at Warners. It was very depressing but exhilarating at the same time. KRS-One

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