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• There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark.

  Bill Moyers

  Animal, Men, Ark

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• All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Men, Matter

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discourse, Subjects, Supreme Being

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.305, Harvard University Press

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• The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Perception, Moral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

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• Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.

  Matt Chandler

  Feel Better, Feels

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• Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Labels, Landscape

  Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.11, Taylor & Francis

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• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  Larry Wall

  Real, Thinking, People

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Assumption, Edifice

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it

  Gerald Priestland

  Christian, Writing, Suffering

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• Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.

  Mishka

  Christian, Sexy, Sadness

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• Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

  Frederick Buechner

  Fiction

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• Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brain

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• Prayer turns theology into experience.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Turns

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.54, Penguin

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

  Martyn

  Men, Fire, Preaching

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• The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know about Him but to know Him! The whole object of salvation is to bring me to knowledge of God. If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer there is something wrong somewhere.

  Martyn

  Prayer, Teaching, Understanding

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• The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.

  Manly Hall

  Religious, Simple, Expression

  Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

  Thomas Jefferson

  Virginia, Should Have, Institutions

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• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  N. T. Wright

  Writing, Biblical, Discipline

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Practice, Diversity, Hijab

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• With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

  Alan Lightman

  Philosophy, Ethical Questions, Borders

  ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

  Israel Shenker

  Men, Imagination, Limits

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Atheism, Telling The Truth

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

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• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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• Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes that bring out the argumentation and background of the work, is thus very much to be welcomed.

  Peter Adamson

  Philosophical, Errors, Islam

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• It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.

  George Eldon Ladd

  Government, Age, Church

  George Eldon Ladd, Donald Alfred Hagner (1993). “A Theology of the New Testament”, p.579, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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