Theology Quotes

• No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Real
  • True
  • Christian

• Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Theology
  • Music Is
  • Gift Of God

• In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • School
  • Black
  • Economic

• The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Important
  • Theology
  • Romans

• 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

• I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a little more reflective of the... Catholic culture but the theology, obviously, is much more Reformational.

  

  Keith Getty
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Wanted

• Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Effort
  • Explain
  • Theology

• Academic theology is false.

  

  Alexander Schmemann
  • False
  • Theology
  • Academic

• 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
  • Begins

• How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Person
  • Notion

• This is one of the hard-and-fast ironies of the Christian tradition: views that at one time were the majority opinion, or at least that were widely seen as completely acceptable, eventually came to be left behind; and as theology moved forward to become increasingly nuanced and sophisticated, these earlier majority opinions came to be condemned as heresies. We have seen this movement already with the exaltation Christology that was the original form of Christian belief. By the second century it was widely deemed heretical. Later understandings of the second century were acceptable and dominant in their day, but they too came to be suspect and even spurned.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Opinion
  • Belief
  • Christian Tradition

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

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Determine
  • Word Of God

• Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Desire
  • Teach

• In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Theology
  • Sovereign

• Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • God
  • Rebellion
  • Defines

• No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Christian

• Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Theology
  • Transcends
  • Reformed

• The cross alone is our theology.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Theology
  • Cross

• Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Force
  • Failed
  • Repentance

• I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Order
  • Theology

• The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Doctrine
  • Theology
  • Disappears

• Formal theological teaching in Africa is deeply rooted in the Western missionary movement . However, in practice, the church wrestles with how to bring theology to bear on the realities it faces in the context.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Church
  • Teaching
  • Missionary

• Oppression theology and supremacist spirituality developed in the belief ecosystem of an angry God who needed appeasement in order to dispense grace, who favored some and disfavored others, and who welcomed the favored into religious institutions that accumulated and hoarded privilege and protected the status quo.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Ecosystem
  • Religious institutions

• I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Literature

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