Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'
Theology is unnecessary.
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.