The Bible is the greatest love story ever told.

Whether you realize it or not, you are a theologian. You come to a book like this with a working theology, an existing understanding of God. Whether you are an agnostic or a fundamentalist —...

Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love…Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to their lives.

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

Shut your mouth, son of filth!” But Bartimaeus knew what it meant to be despised. He also knew that the chance of a lifetime was literally passing him by, so he called to the Savior...

An educated theologian: someone who’s better at rationalizing what they’re pretending to know.

Behold divinity divine enough to abandon divinity. Behold majesty secure enough to proceed un-majestically. Behold strength strong enough to become weakness, goodness good enough to be unmindful of its reputation. Behold love plenteous enough to...

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person of Jesus Christ, when we follow his call through our person, we’re sent...

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

If you don’t know the difference between theology and religiousstudies, then you’re a theologian.

Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

If we, who are finite, contingent, created beings, have got God completely figured out, it makes it seem likely that we invented him…If I am ever completely satisfied with my understanding of who God is...

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know...

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is...

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of...

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

There is no Catholic Zen, Jewish Zen or Islamic Zen. It has no theology.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things....

Faith without reason produces a mindless Christianity which is less than useless; the focus on justice in this world produces a theology that chases its own tail.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the damnation of others; theories that demonstrate that their particular group has been exclusively...

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is known,—about another world, nothing.Our fathers were intellectual serfs, and their fathers were slaves....

To be God – to be like God and to share His goodness in creaturely response – to be miserable – these are the only three alternatives. If we will not learn to eat the...

Swamp Thing, in Hell: “Demon…How…could God…allow such a place?Etrigan: Think you God built this place, wishing man ill and not lusts uncontrolled or swords unsheathed?Not God, my friend. The truth’s more hideous still: These halls...

Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must yet confess that the hill of science, like that of virtue, is in...

Gideon conquers, the church conquers, we conquer, because faith conquers. But the victory belongs not to Gideon, the church, or ourselves, but to God. And God’s victory means our defeat, our humiliation; it means God’s...

Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire.

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, ‘God, I just don’t know...

Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

The gospel is the gospel of the cross. This means that God loves the objects of his wrath and that he, in his love, embraces men alienated from him.

Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

Cosmopolitan discourse emphasizes the _cosmic belonging_ of all individual human beings as the ground of our hospitality, solidarity, justice and neighbor-love. Cosmopolitan discourse is about turning a _compassionate gaze_ onto others regardless of one’s nationality...

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer’s icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

If what they say is right we’re none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

…only in the late 1100s and 1200s did scholars in Sicily and Spain translate Aristotle’s greatest philosophical and scientific texts. These translations had an impact reminiscent of those science fiction stories in which the world...

I’m of the opinion and quite certain that our ‘personal histories’ with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?’Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. ‘What? Who still believes nowadays?”It isn’t that simple. I don’t mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I’m no expert...

I believe we best say yes to God’s glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.