All theology is anthropology, for all religion is a self-deification of man.

The subject seems to me especially fit for a clergyman; for he should, more than other men, be able to avoid trenching on two subjects rightly excluded from this Institution; namely, Theology that is, the knowledge of God; and Religionthat is, the knowledge of Duty.

And though for the present his subject is history, and human morality as it appears to have been revolutionised and finally fixed by that history, and not the theology which subsequent in date is yet the foundation of both, it is difficult to imagine any reader going along with him and not breaking out at length into the burst, "My Lord and my God."

The theology of these sermons is a remarkable feature about them.

Theology is man's conception of this Power, and his thought defined and formulated.

Good judgment and severe criticism were lost to the Church; and, moreover, the gloomy theology of the Middle Ages, all based on the fears of endless physical torments,for the wretched body was the source of all evil, and therefore must be punished,gave sometimes a repulsive form to piety itself.

Theology is not a dry thing, and ought not be made so.

In the Bible, Christian theology is still a soft vase, plastic to the touch of each worker upon it.

Theology is deductive reasoning from truths assumed to be fundamental, and is inductive only so far as it collates Scripture declarations, and interprets their meaning by the aid which learning brings.

His theology was a mild type of the old New England Calvinism, modified, on the one hand, by the influence of his favorite authorssuch as Thomas à Kempis, and Fenelon, the Puritan divines of the seventeenth century, John Newton and Richard Ceciland on the other, by his own profound experience and seraphic love.

Religion is man's feeling after God; theology is man's grasp of God.

But the truth seems to be that the oldest popular theology of Egypt was only a variety of Negro animism and fetishism.

I think it's very horriblefor us to be sitting hereby the fire, and(But theology is not Martha's strong point).

A bad and cruel theology, a narrow priestly mind, became the instruments of lust and murder.

The Australians have been very carefully studied by many observers, and the results entirely overthrow Mr. Huxley's bold statement that 'in its simplest condition, such as may be met with among the Australian savages, theology is a mere belief in the existence, powers, and dispositions (usually malignant) of ghost-like entities who may be propitiated or scared away; but no cult can properly be said to exist.

Now, the theology of Dante was the theology of his age.

He was not at the head of a prosperous church and society, rich and well-to-do in the world,but, as the pioneer leader of a new theology, in a country where theology was the all-absorbing interest, he had to breast the reaction that ever attends the advent of new ideas.

But theology was not the main preoccupation of the court.

Theology is not my origin, but God.

%4. Theology and Theodicy.% God is the ground and the end of the world.

His theology was Arian and 'Universalist' (i.e. holding the doctrine of a final universal salvation); his Anti-Calvinism came out forcibly in his protests against the revivalist excesses.

His theology was a mild type of the old New England Calvinism, modified, on the one hand, by the influence of his favorite authorssuch as Thomas à Kempis, and Fenelon, the Puritan divines of the seventeenth century, John Newton and Richard Ceciland on the other, by his own profound experience and seraphic love.

Speculative theology is an intoxicated philosophy; it is time to become sober, and to recognize that philosophy and religion are diametrically opposed to each other, that they are related to each other as health to disease, as thought to phantasy.

Nay even, so he hoped, that knowledge of God would prove at last to be the key to the right understanding of that physical science of which he, unfortunately for the world, knew but too little, but which he accepted with a loyal trust in God, and in fact as the voice of God, which won him respect and love from men of science to whom his theology was a foreign world.