How Hate Shapes Our Theology

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

—Author Anne ...

Why Theology Is Necessary

Theology is necessary because truth and experience are related. While some would deny, or at least question this connection, in the long run the truth ...

Theology Is About Mystery

Theologian and author Richard J. Mouw writes:

Theology is best understood as "a mystery discerning enterprise" rather than "a problem solving" ...

Choosing Scripture over Theological Systems

It has been my earnest endeavor ever since I have preached the Word, never to keep back a single doctrine which I believe to be taught of God. It is time ...

J.S. Bach and the Bible

When he was 48, Johann Sebastian Bach (who died in 1750) acquired a copy of Luther's three-volume translation of the Bible. He pored over it as if ...

Power of Scripture

In More Jesus, Less Religion, Steve Arterburn writes:

Some time ago, I read about the work of a Wycliffe Bible translator in a remote village in Papua ...

Limits of Theology

Respect for differing views...provides some defense against the natural desire to probe incessantly the mystery of the gospel. (There are those who would ...

New Theology Unnecessary

What we need is not, as is so often argued, ... a new theology of nature but rather a return to the original message contained in the Bible and preached ...

Theologian for the Damned

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

What It Boils Down To

A friend of mine is a professor at an Ivy League school. He told me about a conversation he overheard: ... The head of the astronomy department was speaking ...