Theology Quotes and Sayings

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.
~James Allen

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
~Jeremy Taylor

“Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.”
~Mikhail A. Bakunine

To study theology means not so much to examine exhaustively the work of earlier students of theology as to become their fellow student.
~K. Barth

“Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.”
~Voltaire

Theology itself is the science of God and his works and systematic theology is the systematizing of the findings of that science.
~Henry C. Thiessen

The essential purpose of theology is to study and bring into a fitting, consistent expression the Christian faith.
~Thomas C. Oden,

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
~John Polkinghorne

The word Theology means literally a discourse concerning God, but in analogy with other words, as geology, chronology and biology, it means the science which treats of God.
~James P. Boyce

Christian doctrine is the interpretation of the witness of Holy Scripture, coming from the witness of the believing Community.
~Otto Weber

Theology in the premodern period was always done on the assumption that the Bible was the written Word of God ~C. Pinnock

In theology the investigator has to do with God, Man, and the God-man
~William G. T. Shedd