#2,674

The temptation for the churchman is to carry the waters of religion in the sieve of theology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 431

#2,446

The evolution of Christian dogma is less evident than the evolution of Christian theology.
We Catholics with little theology believe, in the end, the same thing as the first slave who converted in Ephesus or Corinth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 394

#2,415

The impertinent attempt to justify “the ways of God to man” transforms God into a frustrated schoolmaster who invents educational games that are both cruel and childish.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 389

#2,399

The modern theologian’s pirouettes have not gained him one conversion more, nor one apostasy less.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 387

#2,281

For the man who believes in Providence the notion of providence explains nothing, since he believes that everything depends on it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 370

#2,272

Without canon law the Church would not have had her admirable institutional presence in history.
But the vices of Catholic theology stem from its propensity to treat theological problems with the mentality of a canon lawyer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 369

#2,260

We should not believe in the theologian’s God except when He resembles the God called on in distress.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 367

#2,205

The heart does not rebel against the will of God, but against the “reasons” they dare attribute to it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 358

#2,201

Modern theologies tend to be the contortions of a theologian who is trying to avoid admitting his unbelief to himself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 358

#2,178

The Church in recent times has not known how to distinguish between the new truths that call for the rebuilding of the theological structure and the new errors that aim at its demolition.
New Testament criticism, for example, and the “biographies” of Jesus.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 354

#2,092

When the theologian explains the reason for some act of God, the listener wavers between indignation and laughter.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 339

#2,090

Modernism ingeniously finds a way not to present its theology directly, but rather through profane notions that imply it.
It avoids announcing to man his divinity, but proposes goals that only a god could reach, or rather proclaims that the essence of man has rights which assume he is divine.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 338

#1,996

At the thought of the current Church (clergy, liturgy, theology), an old Catholic first becomes indignant, then astonished, and finally he just bursts out in laughter.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 325

#1,710

The theologian corrupts theology by wanting to turn it into a science.
By looking for rules for grace.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,486

The Catholic theologian fulfills his duty only by disrespecting the letter of the vespers and the spirit of the day.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 250

#1,463

More than one presumed “theological problem” comes only from the lack of respect with which God treats our prejudices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 247

#1,265

The religious problem grows worse each day because the faithful are not theologians and the theologians are not faithful.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 219

#948

The modern theologian longs to transform Christian doctrine into a simple ideology of community behavior.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 171

#946

So great is the distance between God and human intelligence that only an infantile theology is not puerile.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 171

#817

To lighten the load of the Christian ship foundering in modern waters, liberal theology yesterday jettisoned the divinity of Christ, and radical theology today jettisons the existence of God.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 150