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Theology is a subject without an object

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• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • Discipline
  • New

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Natural
  • Objects
  • Physical

• Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Society
  • Without
  • Theology

• We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Determine
  • Theology

• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Issues
  • Subjects

• Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Objects

• I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Interest
  • Subjects
  • Curious

• The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Subjects
  • Immortal

• An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Light
  • Dies
  • Objects

• Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is

  

  Baizhang Huaihai
  • Objects
  • Enlightened

• At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Wonder

• Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Art
  • Subjects
  • Biographies

• Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

  

  D.T. Max
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Mind
  • Science

• Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Theology
  • Insistence
  • God-centered

• What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Ends
  • Salvation
  • Theology

• There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photography
  • Opposition
  • Art School

• Since Ummah is a society on the move, a society not in place, but on the way, towards an objective, having a direction, then we need an Imam (from the same root as umma) to lead us toward that objective.

  

  Ali Shariati
  • Society
  • Direction
  • Lead

• Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Strong
  • Light
  • Nice

• Theology is a subject without an object

  

  Dan Barker
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