#theology

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God. ↗

— Jean Calvin

#knowledge #theology #education

You can take course after course of so-called theology and never hear the message at the heart of Christianity—the message of Jesus, which is indiscriminate love. ↗

— Eileen Egan

#theology #love

Forget everything you ordinarily associate with religious study. Strip away all the reverence and the awe and the art and the philosophy of it. Treat the subject coldly. Imagine yourself to be a theologist, but a special kind of theologist, one who studies gods the way an entomologist studies insects. Take as your dataset the entirety of world mythology and treat it as a collection of field observations and statistics pertaining to a hypothetical species: the god. Proceed from there. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#theology #art

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christ #christian-religion #christianity #god-father #god-son

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man? ↗

— Darrel Ray

#religion

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#church

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#metaphysics #nonsense #questioning-mind #questions #theology

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. ↗

— Karl Barth

#study #theology

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology. ↗

— Halldór Laxness

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