Theological Quotes

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.

They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

Atheism is too theological.

Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

The ways in which theological constructs pose questions about what it is to be a human being on this earth are deeply elegant and deeply interesting to me. I may not always agree with the answers religion offers, but I take great interest in the questions it poses.

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.