Quotes about Theology

In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about. On Christian radio and television we are often merely talking to ourselves.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

You can explore further the topic of the Trinity in the book Life in the Trinity by Dr. Donald Fairbairn, the theological reviewer of this book. He also recommends Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves and The Deep Things of God by Fred Sanders.

In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

It is the living significance of the death of Jesus, not the factual details concerning it as a historical event, that matters.

New Testament presents us with not two but three agencies: God, the human being, and an Enemy.

One foundational truth that I have learned from apocalyptic theology, it is this: God is the subject of the verb. God doesn't need us to help him make his "dream" come true; God is on the march far ahead of us, bringing his purposes to pass.

There is a fundamental syntactical distinction between saying "we question the Bible" and "the Bible questions us.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man.