#theology

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#epistimology #ontology #theology #theology

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#comes #common #deconstruction #i #i think

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death. ↗

— Johann Baptist Metz

#death #human-nature #life #spirituality #theology

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. ↗

— Alistair Begg

#christianity #materialism #theology #wealth #faith

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #faith #god #god-s-grace #grace

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith. ↗

— Alan Aldridge

#religion #theology #faith

It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christianity #faith #infant-baptism #theology

Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life to live. … The crisis is the very mystery of our existence and the yearning for there to be some kind of meaning to it. ↗

— Andrew Root

#faith #theology #faith

Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt. ↗

— John D. Caputo

#faith #orthodoxy #theology #faith

A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you. ↗

— M.J. Chrisman

#christianity #fantasy #fiction #inspirational #m-j-chrisman