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«In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians»
Author: Karl Barth
(Theologian)
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Church
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Church of, Jesus Christ, theologian, theologians, The Church of
«If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.»
Author: Lord Salisbury
| About:
Belief
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doctors, innocent, military, theologian, theologians, The Doctors, The Military, wholesome
«If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe»
«Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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debate, discussing, eighteen, finite, Finite number, infinite number, nonsense, pin, theologian, theologians, The Standard
«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«I began to blame the philosophers for rattling away when experience was lacking, and holding their tongues when they ought to have been answering with facts. In this respect they all seemed like watered-down theologians.»
«It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
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generally accepted, tanner, tanners, theologians
«For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Theology
| Keywords:
theologians, unknowable
«Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.»
Author: John Updike
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attempts, bankruptcy, obscene, spiritualism, theologian, theologians
«Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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advantages, animals, ceremonies, clock, cost, disturbed, funerals, instruct, instructing, instructs, moments, strike, theologian, theologians, The Clocks, unpleasant, unwelcome
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