Theology Quotes

“Theologians”

“Missionaries”

“Liberation theology”

“Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.”

“One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”

“Don’t trouble the gods, and they won’t bother you, that’s my theology.”

“theology”

“Theology must either regress to blind faith or progress towards free philosophy.”

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“All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass, "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."”

“Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of myth, philosophy to be the instrument of science.”

“Theologian — the only kind of scholar who has no knowledge whatsoever of his supposed object of study.”

“Theological condemnation of others, which breaks off fellowship in either judgment or contempt, is impermissible.”

“God and Religious Toleration”

“The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.”

“We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and astronomy without mathematics, or exact iron-making without chemistry.”

“Theology must be man's critical reflection on himself, on his own basic principles. Only with this approach will theology be a serious discourse, aware of itself, in full possession of its conceptual elements.”

“Theology is the business—the privileged business—of reflecting through the arts of human intelligence on the truths that God has revealed, truths of which the Church’s teaching authority is the custodian.”

“[Arizona State University scholar Chen Huaiyu’s] work [Seeking Monotheism in Chinese Religions] reminds us that theology isn’t just about gods—it’s about language, power, and the stories we tell to make sense of the divine.”

“Comparative theology testifies that Jesus Christ, who is not less truly the incarnation of the Christian's theology than of the Christian's God, is indeed the desire of the nations, but not their product, their invention, or their discovery.”