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Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.

Godfried Danneels

Discipline

Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

Karl Barth

Theology

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.

Athenagoras I

Theology