At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.
There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
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