73 Theology Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible. Krista Tippett

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If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work ethic. Whatever you might think about the authenticity of their theology or their history, it's immaterial in terms of how the religion itself actually functions. Lawrence Wright

Work Religion History You Care Whatever Community Active Think Immaterial Charities About Mormonism Takes Look Terms Got How Itself Very Authenticity Might Work Ethic Ethic Successful Theology Appealing Functions Actually

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel. Lewis Tappan

Too Much Church Too Gospel Little Much Theology Now

Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes. Lucretia Mott

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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology. Mahershala Ali

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I would support peaceful co-existence between religion and science because they concern different domains. Anyone who takes theology seriously knows that it's not a matter of using it to explain things that scientists are mystified by. Martin Rees

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know. Mary Daly

Out Studied Study Know Piety Because Wanted Theology

When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off. Michael Shermer

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies. N. T. Wright

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When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Diversity Practice Wear Both How Huge Whether Then Theology Why

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. Rodney Stark

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Theology is unnecessary. Stephen Hawking

Unnecessary Theology

Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books. Susan Hill

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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. Terry Eagleton

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ. Tullian Tchividjian

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Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA. Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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