The answer is that their confidence was actuallh in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he would do. They had inner assurance that God would rescue them. However, they were not...

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble–because the Christ-life is...

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...

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

You have the chief spark of your health’s fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as ‘religion’ itself.

And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind...

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

A theology that endangers life rather than “giving life” is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained”. Why I do this? Well, there is a deep-rooted imperfection in me which nested in my DNA and causes a linear interference that affects my consciousness. As a result I don’t...

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.

The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest...

The formula “the Church is the Body of Christ” thus states that the Eucharist, in which the Lord gives us his body, forever remains the place where the Church is generated, where the Lord himself...

In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had not been specifically condemned as heretical by the Council of Carthage. In the...

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

A theology that cannot be sung is not worth having…. Authentic Christian faith is not merely believed. Nor is it merely acted upon. It is sung – with utter joy sometimes, in uncontrollable tears sometimes,...

If we are free to delete all inconvenient data we shall certainly have no theological difficulties; but for the same reason no solutions and no progress…. The troublesome fact, the apparent absurdity which can’t be...

Theology isn’t what drove them to their…theology.” author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments.

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...

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

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man’s biography regarding God’s promised experiences and truth for him – his individual, unique...

If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace –...

I don’t care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

Once people get hung up on theology, they’ve lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure,...

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.

Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.

In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse. The object was to find a verbal formula to define the Brahman, the...

One should regard one’s religious or denominational affiliation as a point of departure, a point of entry, not the point of arrival because on cannot confine God to a particular religion or faith tradition, and...

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word “hell,” what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn’t his point. He’s often not talking about...

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.

For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observable nature of things. The poetic and theological idea that the universe is an expression of God’s...

Like the Church the individual Christian will not be able to escape the deep ambiguities of this-wordly existence whether in its cultural, social, political or other aspects, and he too will inevitably be a mixture...

We don’t yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them...

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. ‘God had made us master organizers of...

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.

The evangelist is the world’s hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’?

Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world...