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• The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

  William A. Dembski

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Reality

  "Signs of intelligence: understanding intelligent design". Book by William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, March 2001.

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• A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Dog, Grateful, Kind

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• It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Religious, Jesus

  Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Males, Female, Sin

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.211, Random House

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• Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

  Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  Church, Telling The Truth, Priests

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• Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

  Russell Kirk

  Moving, Interesting, Ethics

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• I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.

  Jan Potocki

  Study, Reason, Creation

  Jan Potocki (2006). “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa”, p.495, Penguin UK

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• Our passion is to imitate the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. This requires we must follow Jesus out of baptismal waters, through our personal deserts, and into the harvest. We want to take the ammunition of the balanced evangelical theology with the fire power of Pentecostal practice, loading & readying the best of both worlds to hit the target of making & nurturing disciples.

  John Wimber

  Jesus, Passion, Fire

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• If we believe in a theology that doesn't contain doing the works of Jesus, we will not have a practice of Signs & Wonders.

  John Wimber

  Jesus, Believe, Practice

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• Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.

  Jean-Luc Marion

  Mean, Doe, Demand

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• The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.

  Josef Pieper

  Philosophy, Desire, Causes

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• Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation...we will never view the world the same way again.

  Christopher West

  Father, Views, Heaven

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• We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Tea, Needs

  "Pope Francis Insists Church Must Help Poor, Not ‘Speak Of Theology’" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2013.

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• Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

  Karl Barth

  Exegesis, Practicals, Halfway

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• A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

  Alan Hirsch

  Life, God, Christian

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• In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither here nor there. Theology, at its best, can help to liberate us from our own anthropocentric limitations.

  Andrew Linzey

  Beautiful, Nature, Eye

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• Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Animal, Creative

  Andrew Linzey (2016). “Christianity and the Rights of Animals”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the church's teaching or the experience of pious souls. It is not a subset of ethics, religious studies, cultural anthropology, or psychology. God is the object of this discipline.

  Michael Horton

  Religious, Teaching, Names

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• Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.

  Lucretia Mott

  Doors, Land, Vision

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• A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

  John Macquarrie

  Exercise, Would Be, Spirituality

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• One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there is an inherent, intrinsic inclination to intimidate, manipulate, and, hence, offend the person's most prized quality of humanness - his dignity.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Communication, Quality, Roles

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• Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.

  John D. Caputo

  Mean, Self, Water

  John D. Caputo (2007). “What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church”, p.131, Baker Academic

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• The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God--a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being--before ordinary people, we have gone wrong

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, People, Soul

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• I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

  Walt Mossberg

  Technology, Class, Enemy

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• How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

  Bill Moyers

  Political, Soul, Democracy

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