#theology

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#theology

I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#god #philosophy #theology #noble

One man's pornography is another man's theology. ↗

— Clive Barker

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If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. ↗

— N.T. Wright

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Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certain #certainty #challenge #challenging #children

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul. ↗

— Russell Kirk

#politics #theology #theology

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#christianity #theology #theology

If I speak in the tongues of Reformers and of professional theologians, and I have not personal faith in Christ, my theology is nothing but the noisy beating of a snare drum. And if I have analytic powers and the gift of creating coherent conceptual systems of theology, so as to remove liberal objections, and have not personal hope in God, I am nothing. And if I give myself to resolving the debate between supra and infralapsarianism, and to defending inerrancy, and to learning the Westminster Catechism, yea, even the larger one, so as to recite it by heart backwards and forwards, and have not love, I have gained nothing. ↗

— Kevin Vanhoozer

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