#theological

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#department #each #knowledge #metaphysical #passes

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. ↗

— Barney Frank

#any #binds #called #concept #contrary

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

— John Polkinghorne

#present #theological #thinking #too #too much

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. ↗

— Edward Irving

#fearful #i #ignorance #most #omen

His hands had been reddened, as all men's hands have been, in the slaying before the foundation of the world; now, if he chose, he would dip them again in the same blood. 'Mercy,' he groaned... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#theological #inspirational

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#christian #christianity #god #one-christ-one-church #religion

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. ↗

— David Brooks

#form #known #logical #lunacy #procedure

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#body #church #credited #drag #know

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#how #language #light #nature #our

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented