#theology

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

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#positivism #sagan #science #skepticism #theology

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#church #nihilism #philosophy #theology #logic