Theologian Quotes

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.
Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and imposes moral codes and responsibilities upon them, thereby generating serious intellectual questions such as: 'Why does God allow us to sin?' 'Does the Sixth Commandment prohibit war?'
There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish to become very 'religious' on a day-to-day basis - that the megachurch appeal is a mile wide and an inch deep.
There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did.
Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.
Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
A public is a necessary fiction.
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
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