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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/BannerAnthropology.png/440px-BannerAnthropology.png 2x" data-file-width="1374" data-file-height="240" /></a><figcaption>Theology is <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">Anthropology</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Feuerbach" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludwig Feuerbach">Ludwig Feuerbach</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tribulation_views.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Tribulation_views.svg/220px-Tribulation_views.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Tribulation_views.svg/330px-Tribulation_views.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Tribulation_views.svg/440px-Tribulation_views.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a> without <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, or exact iron-making without <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_Hall_(Presbyterian_pastor)" title="John Hall (Presbyterian pastor)">John Hall</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Masaryk_kulaty.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Masaryk_kulaty.png/220px-Masaryk_kulaty.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Masaryk_kulaty.png/330px-Masaryk_kulaty.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Masaryk_kulaty.png/440px-Masaryk_kulaty.png 2x" data-file-width="732" data-file-height="732" /></a><figcaption>Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of <a href="/wiki/Myth" class="mw-redirect" title="Myth">myth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> to be the instrument of <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Garrigue_Masaryk" title="Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk">Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Theology">Theology</a></b> is the critical study of the nature of the <a href="/wiki/Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine">divine</a>. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass, "<a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> <a href="/wiki/Christ" title="Christ">Christ</a> came into the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> to save <a href="/wiki/Sinners" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinners">sinners</a>." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Alexander" title="Archibald Alexander">Archibald Alexander</a>, <i>Practical Truths</i> (New York: American Tract Society, 1857), p. 385.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>An analysis of religious beliefs in general, this volume is in particular directed against theological Christianity, the chief opponent of free thought. It contains not one word against the pure teachings of Jesus, but unsparingly denounces their debasement into pernicious ecclesiastical systems that are ruinous to man's faith in his immortality and his God, and subversive of all moral restraint.<br /> We cast our gauntlet at the dogmatic theologians who would enslave both history and science; and especially at the Vatican, whose despotic pretensions have become hateful to the greater portion of enlightened Christendom. The clergy apart, none but the logician, the investigator, the dauntless explorer should meddle with books like this. Such delvers after truth have the courage of their opinions. <ul><li><i>Isis Unveiled</i>, BY <a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, Vol. II, Theology, (1877)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>All the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Fathers" class="extiw" title="w:Church Fathers">Fathers</a> with one heart execrated, and with one mouth protested against, contaminating the word of God with the subtleties of sophists, and involving it in the brawls of dialecticians. Do they keep within these limits when the sole occupation of their lives is to entwine and entangle the simplicity of Scripture with endless disputes, and worse than sophistical jargon? So much so, that were the Fathers to rise from their graves, and listen to the brawling art which bears the name of speculative theology, there is nothing they would suppose it less to be than a discussion of a religious nature. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin">John Calvin</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutes_of_the_Christian_Religion" class="extiw" title="w:Institutes of the Christian Religion">Institutes of the Christian Religion</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Biblical scholarship is useful as a form of historical inquiry and literary exegesis, while theology is a remnant of our childhood as a species, a vestigial belief that’s the mental equivalent of adults holding blankets and sucking their thumbs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Coyne" title="Jerry Coyne">Jerry Coyne</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/01/21/i-answer-an-ambiguous-question-can-scientists-believe-in-god/">I answer an ambiguous question: “Can scientists believe in God?</a>" January 22, 2023</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theologian" class="mw-redirect" title="Theologian">Theologian</a> — the only kind of scholar who has no knowledge whatsoever of his supposed object of study. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karlheinz_Deschner" title="Karlheinz Deschner">Karlheinz Deschner</a> <i>Bissige Aphorismen</i>, S. 29</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When all is said and done, science is about things and theology is about words. Things behave in the same way everywhere, but words do not. ... Theology works in one culture alone. If you have not grown up in <a href="/wiki/John_Polkinghorne" title="John Polkinghorne">Polkinghorne's</a> culture, where words such as "<a href="/wiki/Incarnation" title="Incarnation">incarnation</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">trinity</a>" have a profound meaning, you cannot share his vision. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_Dyson" title="Freeman Dyson">Freeman Dyson</a>, <i>The Scientist As Rebel</i> (2006).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is a curious accident of history that the Christian religion became heavily involved with theology. No other religion finds it necessary to formulate elaborately precise statements about the abstract qualities and relationships of gods and humans. ...The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual <a href="/wiki/Analysis" title="Analysis">analysis</a> is uniquely Christian. ...It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind. A thousand years of theological disputes nurtured the habit of analytical thinking that could also be applied to the analysis of natural phenomena. On the other hand, the close historical relations between theology and science have caused conflicts between science and Christianity that does not exist between science and other religions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_Dyson" title="Freeman Dyson">Freeman Dyson</a>, <i>The Scientist As Rebel</i> (2006).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The common root of modern science and Christian theology was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Greek philosophy">Greek philosophy</a>. The historical accident that caused the Christian religion to become heavily theological was the fact that <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> was born in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire at the time when the prevailing culture was profoundly Greek. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_Dyson" title="Freeman Dyson">Freeman Dyson</a>, <i>The Scientist As Rebel</i> (2006).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Theology must either regress to blind faith or progress towards free philosophy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a>, <i>Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy</i> (January 1844), Published in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch-Franz%C3%B6sische_Jahrb%C3%BCcher" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher">Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/df-jahrbucher/outlines.htm">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.</i> <ul><li>Theology is <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">Anthropology</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Feuerbach" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludwig Feuerbach">Ludwig Feuerbach</a>, <i>The Essence of Christianity</i> ["Wesen des Christenthums"], Preface to the 2nd Ed. (1843).</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the <a href="/wiki/Intelligent_Design" class="mw-redirect" title="Intelligent Design">Intelligent Designer</a>) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case get it out of the science classroom and send it back into the church, where it belongs. <ul><li><i>The Guardian</i>, "One side can be wrong", 1 September 2005.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Theology must be man's critical reflection on himself, on his own basic principles. Only with this approach will theology be a serious discourse, aware of itself, in full possession of its conceptual elements. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gustavo_Guti%C3%A9rrez" title="Gustavo Gutiérrez">Gustavo Gutiérrez</a>, <i>A Theology of Liberation</i> (1971), p. 11.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a> without <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, or exact iron-making without <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Hall_(Presbyterian_pastor)" title="John Hall (Presbyterian pastor)">John Hall</a>, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love" title="Time Enough for Love">Time Enough for Love</a></i> (1973), Ace paperback edition, <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-441-81076-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-441-81076-5">ISBN 978-0-441-81076-5</a>, </small> p. 243</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the <a href="/wiki/Character" title="Character">character</a> of their <a href="/wiki/Ideal" title="Ideal">ideal</a> of Christ, the central fact of the Christian <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Gilbert_Holland" title="Josiah Gilbert Holland">Josiah Gilbert Holland</a>, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Theological condemnation of others, which breaks off fellowship in either judgment or contempt, is impermissible. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_K%C3%A4semann" title="Ernst Käsemann">Ernst Käsemann</a>, <i>Commentary on the Romans</i> (1980), p. 369: Describing <a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul's</a> view</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>According to logic 'nothing" is that of which everything can truly be denied and nothing can truly be affirmed. The idea therefore either of a finite or infinite nothing is a contradiction in terms. And yet according to theologians "God the self existent being is a most simple, unchangeable, incorruptible being; without parts, figure, motion, divisibility, or any other such properties as we find in matter. For all such things so plainly and necessarily imply finiteness in their very notion and are utterly inconsistent with complete infinity." Therefore the God here offered to the adoration of the XlXth century lacks every quality upon which man's mind is capable of fixing any judgment. What is this in fact but a being of whom they can affirm nothing that is not instantly contradicted. Their own Bible their Revelation destroys all the moral perceptions they heap upon him unless indeed they call those qualities perfections that every other man's reason and common sense call imperfections, odious vices and brutal wickedness. Nay more he who reads our Buddhist scriptures written for the superstitious masses will fail to find in them a demon so vindictive, unjust, so cruel and so stupid as the celestial tyrant upon whom the Christians prodigally lavish their servile worship and on whom their theologians heap those perfections that are contradicted on every page of their Bible. Truly and veritably your theology has created her God but to destroy him piecemeal. Your church is the fabulous Saturn, who begets children but to devour them. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koot_Hoomi" class="extiw" title="w:Koot Hoomi">Koot Hoomi</a>, in <a href="/wiki/The_Mahatma_Letters_to_A._P._Sinnett" title="The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett"><i>The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett</i></a>, (1923), Letter No. X, p. 54, 1881</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charles_Webster_Leadbeater.016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater.016.jpg/220px-Charles_Webster_Leadbeater.016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="356" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater.016.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="277" data-file-height="448" /></a><figcaption>In the future... the glories of the heaven world will also be open to his sight, and he will realize that man needs only a development of <a href="/wiki/Will_(philosophy)" title="Will (philosophy)">faculty</a> in order to place him at once, here and <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a>, in the midst of all the bliss that that wondrous life can give. ~ <a href="/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater" title="Charles Webster Leadbeater">Charles Webster Leadbeater</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Instead of consigning some men to heaven and some to <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">hell</a>, as moderm <a class="mw-selflink selflink">theology</a> does, it would be more true to say that every man must pass through both the states which are typified by those names. Every man must pass through the astral plane on his way to the <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a> world. Every man at the end of his astral life will attain that heaven world, unless he be a person so entirely elementary, so entirely degraded as never yet to have had any unselfish thought or feeling. If that be so, there can indeed be no heaven world for him, because all these selfish desires and feelings belong exclusively to the astral plane, and they will find their result on that plane. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater" title="Charles Webster Leadbeater">Charles Webster Leadbeater</a>, <i>Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern</i> (1903)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our religious friends argue much about heaven and hell and are terribly afraid of the latter indeed it would sometimes almost seem as though they were afraid of the former as well, from the manner in which they exert themselves to avoid going there. In the future no questions or disputes about these conditions will be possible, because man will see for himself that there is no hell, though he will also see very clearly that those who live an evil life are by that fact storing up for themselves very undesirable results and a very unpleasant time in the astral life. The glories of the heaven world will also be open to his sight, and he will realize that man needs only a development of <a href="/wiki/Will_(philosophy)" title="Will (philosophy)">faculty</a> in order to place him at once, here and <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a>, in the midst of all the bliss that that wondrous life can give. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater" title="Charles Webster Leadbeater">Charles Webster Leadbeater</a>, <i>Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern</i> (1903)</li></ul></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The question is frequently asked: <i>why there is a school of theology attached to every <a href="/wiki/University" class="mw-redirect" title="University">University</a>?</i> The answer is easy: <i>It is, that the Universities may subsist, and that the instruction may not become corrupt.</i> Originally, the Universities were only schools of theology, to which other <i>faculties</i> were joined, as subjects around their <a href="/wiki/Queen" title="Queen">Queen</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre" title="Joseph de Maistre">Joseph de Maistre</a>, <i>Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions</i> (1809), XXXVIII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of <a href="/wiki/Myth" class="mw-redirect" title="Myth">myth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> to be the instrument of <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>. <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="" id="CITEREFGarrigue_Masaryk1919"><a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Garrigue_Masaryk" title="Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk">Garrigue Masaryk, Thomas</a> (1919), <i>The Spirit of Russia</i>, <b>I</b>, p. 208</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Spirit+of+Russia&rft.aulast=Garrigue+Masaryk&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rft.au=Garrigue+Masaryk%2C+Thomas&rft.date=1919&rft.volume=I&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B208&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Theology"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li> <li>Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty" title="Maurice Merleau-Ponty">Maurice Merleau-Ponty</a>, <i>In Praise of Philosophy</i> (Chicago: 1963), p. 44.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing, it rests on no principles, it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is not the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason" class="extiw" title="w:The Age of Reason"><i>The Age of Reason</i></a>, Part II (1795)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Don’t trouble the gods, and they won’t bother you, that’s my theology. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_L._Paxson" class="extiw" title="w:Diana L. Paxson">Diana L. Paxson</a>, <i>Equona’s Mare,</i> in <a href="/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley" title="Marion Zimmer Bradley">Marion Zimmer Bradley</a> (ed.) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_and_Sorceress_series" class="extiw" title="w:Sword and Sorceress series"><i>Sword and Sorceress 6</i></a> (1990), p. 12</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Comparative theology testifies that Jesus Christ, who is not less truly the incarnation of the Christian's theology than of the Christian's God, is indeed the desire of the nations, but not their product, their invention, or their discovery. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dana_Boardman_Pepper" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:George Dana Boardman Pepper">George Dana Boardman Pepper</a>, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts</b> not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver-but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for a sociological consideration of these concepts. The exception in jurisprudence is analogous to the miracle in theology. Only by being aware of this analogy can we appreciate the manner in which the philosophical ideas of the state developed in the last centuries. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Schmitt" title="Carl Schmitt">Carl Schmitt</a>, <i>Political Theology</i> (1922; 1934), Ch. 3. Political Theology; translated by George Schwab.</li></ul></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <ul><li><b>A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless <a href="/wiki/Definition" title="Definition">definition</a>.</b> Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon" title="Charles Spurgeon">Charles Spurgeon</a>, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theology&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Theology is the business—the privileged business—of reflecting through the arts of human intelligence on the truths that God has revealed, truths of which the Church’s teaching authority is the custodian.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Weigel" class="extiw" title="w:George Weigel">George Weigel</a>, biographer of <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a>, Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (p. 41). Basic Books. 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