The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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 in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
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 is the logic of the Devil.
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.