Bad Theology Quotes

#1. Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.

Guy Consolmagno

#2. How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

Bill Moyers

#3. So there are no nontheologians; there is just good theology and bad theology.

William H. Willimon

#4. Doxology can help stabilize theology. It is very difficult to sing bad theology.

Douglas Bond

#5. Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

John Piper

#6. But as a matter of fact, another part of my trade, too, made me sure you weren't a priest."
"What?" asked the thief, almost gaping.
"You attacked reason," said Father Brown. "It's bad theology.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. Theology without love simply is very bad theology.

Paul David Tripp

#9. Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

John Piper

#10. There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

Theodore Hesburgh

#11. Bad theology kills

Kevin Garcia

#12. Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones
bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas.

C.S. Lewis

#13. When we take our focus off of our external selves, and others, God does His best work internally! JW

Evinda Lepins

#14. Normative Christian theology has enshrined a doctrine that obscures the truth in the scriptures. God is in a box and theologians scramble to preserve the box. It appears to be an attempt to rescue God from the shame of a creation-gone-bad.

Leo Hare

#15. Doing good aid required a time commitment - not a week, not a month, but years.

Jessica Alexander

#16. You will see by this that no man should be judged by another here in this life, for the good or evil he has done. Deeds may be properly judged, whether they are good or bad, but not men.

Clifton Wolters

#17. Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

J.I. Packer

#18. Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

Criss Jami

#19. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

Bill Moyers

#20. I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

Orlan

#21. The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

Dennis Ritchie

#22. I love working in the theater.

Didi Conn

#23. Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

Umberto Eco

#24. Damien, wake up." I shake his shoulder. "Either we really set the sheets on fire, or something out there is burning.

J. Kenner

#25. [Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

H.L. Mencken

#26. We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Randy Alcorn

#27. Second, you should examine the Scriptures for principles that relate to the issue at hand. The Lord will never ask you to do anything that is morally wrong or in contradiction to His Word. If what you are considering violates a concept you find in the Word, you can forget it.

James C. Dobson

#28. We talked the moon out of heavens before either of us grew tired.

Roger Zelazny

#29. You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used to cross the Atlantic, we've asked British Airways for two of theirs.

Richard Branson

#30. Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

Bertrand Russell

#31. Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.

Greg Graffin

#32. Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.

Swami Vivekananda

#33. Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

Carl R. Trueman

#34. Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

Isaac Barrow