Theology Quotes - Page 4

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

Men are better than this theology.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

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

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure