We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow,...

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

The search for God begins at the point of need.

It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history of the world, we’re actually getting dumber it seems. The amount of (mis)information...

Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy (‘love of wisdom’) is simply a tool depending on how one uses it,...

We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.

I think we should stop treating [“God works in mysterious ways”] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, “Oh good! I...

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul and lifted the body politic to a higher plane. Take the Reverend Martin...

If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war...

Could your god and this infernal be called enemies, then?””It is more complicated than that. God knew what was going to happen, of course. The divine has a plan for the infernal. Because all is...

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh…the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.

The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the ideal of cosmopolitan theology and the current sociopolitical configuration of hospitality, welcoming others,...

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don’t find the consolation they want in spiritual...

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know...

I am not aligned in my thinking with Calvinism, neither am I aligned in my thinking with Arminianism. I have proposed a more ‘Wholeistic’ theology encompassing the ‘both/and’ in the context Objective Truth & Reality”....

In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around them and then join themselves to that work. The church is that community...

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

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.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:

And yet a dream of God–THIS God–is no ordinary dream, nor night terror… It is an apocalyptic vision. As such it makes manifest what good people do not want to see, perhaps cannot see. It...

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

To understand our faith — to theologize in the Catholic tradition — we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of God, person, creation, relationship, identity, natural law, virtues, conscience, moral norms if we...

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith.” (Br. Cadfael)

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...

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person’s theology was the effect it has on one’s prayers.

Wesley’s theology was, then, largely a theology of reaction. Most of his theological output had polemical overtones, and some works were devoted exclusively to that end. The direction and the intensity of the challenge determined...

All life is bound to a simple truth… that time goes on, that in each person’s life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.

Theology alone doesn’t convine anyone.Only those words which are pregnant with action, theology that is born of suffering, of struggles, of the poor–this theology is a testimony. This theology leads to conversion. (Leonardo Boff, p....

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.

I believe theology should be about one’s way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one’s profound existence in the world.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is...

We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn’t claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you bet on God’s valuing dishonestly faked belief (or even honest belief) over honest...

Not bad, not bad at all,” Diotallevi said. “To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

Isn’t the human body a miracle

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does...

One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth. He really...

It was not the Fall of Adam, therefore, that set God’s agenda; it was the decision to share the great dance with us through Jesus. Adam’s plunge certainly threatened God’s dreams for us, but that...

karmic reassignment”) manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: ‘In different times,...

No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.

We’re very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they’re beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can’t...

Christ is the Lesson as well as the Teacher.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God’s incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.