Nothing that you have not given away will never be truly your own.
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
Category: Contemporary Theologians
Quotes from Theologians of the past few centuries
The validity of questions
No question has been fully understood until it has been fully posed and all of its assumption understood.
C.S. Lewis
Assessing an Interpretation of Christ’s Salvation
Does it suggest a change in God or in us?
Does it separate Christ from the Father?
Does it isolate the cross from the Incarnation and Resurrection
Does it suggest Christ just appeals to our feelings — or did He change our situation?
Kallistos Ware
Salvation in Christ
The definition of idolatry
Idolatry is directing your adoration to an unreality.
Rowan Williams
Idols, Images and Icons
2012 Cadbury Lecture series at the University of Birmingham
Christianity is about the death of death
Christianity is a belief, first of all and above all, in the fact that Christ did not remain in the grave, that life shone forth from death, and that in Christ’s Resurrection from the dead, the absolute, all-encompassing law of dying and death, which tolerated no exceptions, was somehow blown apart and overcome from within.
Fr. Alexander Schmemann
The Christian Concept of Death
To be human is to be dialogical
To be human is to be dialogical. I need you in order to be myself.
Kallistos Ware
Speech: On Evangelical Orthodox Dialog
Possible quote from John Zizoulas
Theology can only take us so far
Theological statements set a fence around the mystery though they don’t exhaustively describe it.
Kallistos Ware
Speech: How Should We Study Theology
The incarnation is a sacrifice
A sacrifice is not limited to death. The whole of Christ’s life is a sacrifice. The incarnation is already a sacrifice.
Kallistos Ware
Salvation in Christ: The Orthodox Approach
Salvation in Christ: The Orthodox Approach
God is the eternal present.
God is the eternal present.
Paul Evdokimov
Ages of the Spiritual Life