Theology
Reasoned study of God and of divine things, from revelation and from reason.
Works to read
- Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin, 1536; definitive Latin edition 1559 · Great Books
- Scientific and Mathematical Treatises by Blaise Pascal, 1647-1654 · Great Books
- The Word of God and the Word of Man by Karl Barth, 1924 (English 1928) · Great Books
- The Early Christian Creeds by Various, 2nd-5th centuries CE
- Sermons and Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr., 1955-1963
- On the Heavens by Aristotle, c. 350 BC · Great Books
- Metaphysics by Aristotle, c. 350-322 BC · Great Books
- A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke, 1689 · Great Books
- Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire, 1759 · Great Books
- An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus, c. 743
- Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, c. 1100
- Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, 1265-1274
Passages
I’ve studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One
My explanation is that the faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology
— Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
They belong now not to the department of theology, but to those of literature and taste.
— Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable
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