Quotes about Theology

If God used evolution, God came from an ape.

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis, because it guarantees a complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost canonical status in Protestant theology. But now we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics

Christendom and the theological world were always ill-advised in thinking it their duty for some reason or other, either of enthusiasm or of theological conception, to pitch their tents in opposition to reason.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation

Concerning the Investigation of Super-History' (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20—8)

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.