#theology

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

— Hans Kung

#extremely #important #paul #romans #synthesis

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#how #humane #our #react #realizing

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

— Lewis Tappan

#gospel #little #much #now #theology

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

— Jeremy Taylor

#divine #knowledge #life #rather #than

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. ↗

— Don Marquis

#devil #figures #going #keep #male

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." Paul Tillich ↗

— Paul Tillich

#theology #life

I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#pessimism #philosophic-reflection #religion #theology #life

All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology must submit; rather, every discourse is, in some sense, religious. The playing field has been leveled. Theology is most persistently postmodern when it rejects a lingering correlational false humility and instead speaks unapologetically from the the primacy of Christian revelation and the church's confessional language. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

#discipline #postmodernism #proof #religious-claims #revelation

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him ↗

— John Piper

#theology #christianity

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself. ↗

— Lee Smolin

#cosmology #metaphysics #physics #science #theology