Quotes about Theology

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

The theological foundation for Christian hope is the raising of the crucified Christ.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

Jesus died crying out to God 'My God, why hast thou forsaken me?' All Christian theology and all Christian life is basically an answer to the question which Jesus asked as he died.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

So evil can't exist unless good exists. But good can't exist unless God exists. In other words, there can be no objective evil unless there is objective good, and there can be no objective good unless God exists. If evil is real—and we all know it is—then God exists.

To say that a scientist can disprove the existence of God is like saying a mechanic can disprove the existence of Henry Ford. It doesn't follow.

The God the new atheists reject is not the actual God of the Bible.

This does not mean that the knowledge of the world, church history, theology, philosophy, and the Scriptures is without value. Such knowledge can be very useful.[105] But it is not central. Theological competence and a high-voltage intellect alone do not qualify a person to serve in God's house.

If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even now for each individual the Christian Church is earlier than theology.

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.