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I had begun to comprehend that the Bible's story is about the relationship of God to human beings, and of human beings to one another, and that this meant that it is our friendships, marriages, families, and even church congregations that best reveal what kind of theology we have, who our God is. Or, as Thomas Merton once put it, "because we love, God is present." That is the story.
— Kathleen Norris
The concept of sin does not exist so that people who may need therapy more than theology can be convinced that they are evil and beyond hope. It is meant to encourage people to believe that they are made in the image of God and to act accordingly. Hope is the heart of it, and the ever-present possibility of transformation.
— Kathleen Norris
Unfortunately, the marvelous understanding celebrated at the original Pentecost has faded into the background, and now the word "Pentecostal" often signifies not Christian unity but sectarian differences. Many Pentecostals are conservative Christians who disdain those of a more liberal persuasion. And mainstream Christians often dismiss Pentecostals as looney tunes; anti-intellectual in their theology, overemotional in their worship.
— Kathleen Norris
Since the earliest days of the Christian church, there has been a curious tension between Semitic storytelling, which admits a remarkable diversity of voices, perspectives, and experience into the canon, and Greek philosophy, which seeks to define, distinguish, pare down. It is the latter most people think of when they hear the word "theology," because at least in the Christian West, it is that tendency that has prevailed.
— Kathleen Norris
Every single Biblical doctrine of theology, directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis in the book of Genesis.
— Ken Ham
The first resurrection, then, takes place at the parousia, the second when Christ abdicates his kingdom.
— Geerhardus Vos
And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.
— Geerhardus Vos
Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.
— Geerhardus Vos
Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.
— George Weigel