#theology

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#areas #been #before #chaotic #common

It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. ↗

— James Joyce

#faith

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#bible #discussion #done #going #iraq

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist. ↗

— Charles Stross

#cosmic-sadist #death #everything #life #religion

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#general #human #ingenuity #me #seems

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals. ↗

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

#social-justice #theology #equality

Theology is the logic of the Devil. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#logic #theology

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#i #i think #last #more #our

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

— H.L. Mencken

#religion #theology #religion

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. ↗