Quotes about Theology

God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists.

I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories provide evidence for theologically neutral premises in philosophical arguments leading to a conclusion that has theistic significance.

the economic sphere is like a thermometer that reveals both the temperature of the theological relationship between God and Israel (angle A), and also the extent to which Israel was conforming to the social shape required of them in consistency with their status as God's redeemed people (angle B).

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.

In infant baptism it was confessed that conversion and regeneration differ, and conversion is ordinarily a coming to consciousness of that new life which has long before been planted in the heart.

The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.

Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,

Reason was cast down from this exalted pedestal by the philosophy of Kant, by the theology of Schleiermacher and with the rise of the Romantic school.

Philosophy arose out of religion,

It is supernaturalism, which in point of fact forms the point of controversy between Christianity and many panegyrists of modern culture.

Christian religion cannot abandon this supernaturalism without annihilating itself.

If the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one with the Godhead.