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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Theology is anthropology.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

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.

Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.

I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.

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.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

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.