Theology Quotes - Page 23

• I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Thinking, Should

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Writing, Tradition, Very Good

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• [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.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Modern, Summary

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• That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Thinking, Church

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• There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.

  Peter Adamson

  Believe, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Stories, Isaac

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.69, David C Cook

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• You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Christian, People

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.5, Image

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• After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Giving, Honor

  "Luther on Education in the Christian Home and School".

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• If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

  J. I. Packer

  Heart, Doe, Ifs

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• Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Death, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Song, Brother, Struggle

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• Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Religious, Mean, Following Christ

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• When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.

  Laura Story

  Song, Biblical, Thinking

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.

  G. B. Caird

  Destiny, Men, Names

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• The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

  Carter Heyward

  Peace, Blessing, Creating

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• I think one of the great strengths of Americans United is that it has such diversity. That it has not only people who have no religious belief, but lots of people who do and who take that belief very seriously. And I think that provides us with a great opportunity to talk about the separation of church and state. There are plenty of other groups, and some of them are quite good at what they do, but they also have an agenda of non-theism, but we don't have, you might say, a theology. We just have a commitment to the Constitution.

  Barry W. Lynn

  Religious, Commitment, Opportunity

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Argument, Sophisticated

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Religious, Brother

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.

  Paul Tillich

  Moving, Destiny, Two

  Paul Tillich (1973). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Religious, Knowledge, Happy Life

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• I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will remember my passion for the Eucharist from our classes. Blessed be God for this madness... We must live our commitment to society steeped in the Eucharist. We must take the Eucharist to the streets, both in the heart of the city and on the outskirts, to the poor neighborhoods and to hospitals... In order to obey the Resurrected Christ, I dare say with Pope John Paul II: 'Open wide the doors of your heart to the Holy Spirit.'

  Nicolas Cotugno

  Stars, Blessed, Passion

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• Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?

  John Stott

  Spiritual, Biblical, Tolerance

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• This is not mathematics; this is theology.

  Paul Gordan

  Mathematics

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• Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

  Lori Lipman Brown

  Law, Religion, Atheism

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