Roger Haight Quotes

Roger Haight is an American Jesuit theologian and former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. He is regarded as a very knowledgeable and pioneering theologian, whose experiences with censorship have led to widespread debate over how to handle controversial ideas in the Catholic church today. Wikipedia  

✵ 1936
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Famous Roger Haight Quotes

“Each book of the New Testament is in its own way a methodical interpretation of the Christian experience of revelation.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Four, Revelation and Theology, p. 79

“As an appeal to hope the symbol of the kingdom of God is utopic.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Eight, Symbolic Religious Communication, p. 155

“Responsibility to history and tradition creates freedom.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Eleven, Dynamics of Theology, p. 234

“One cannot reason without a conceptual content that is historically mediated.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Three, The Structure of Revelation, p. 63

“This dialectical structure must be understood in terms of a dynamic process of communication.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Nine, The Structure of Interpretation, p. 178

Roger Haight Quotes about reality

“A great deal of what we know about reality is accompanied by little more interest than simple curiosity.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Eight, Symbolic Religious Communication, p. 147

“A symbol is first of all a finite reality of this world.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Seven, The Symbolic Structure of Religion, p. 133

Roger Haight Quotes

“Without a question, without inquiry, scripture and tradition remain mere data.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Ten, Method in theology, p. 194

“Revelation as a consciousness of God's Presence is available to all.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Three, The Structure of Revelation, p. 60

“Theology seeks to explain the meaning of Christian assertions in a language comprehensible to any given age.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Ten, Method in theology, p. 192

“Salvation is an individual's personal encounter with God's Presence.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Ten, Method in theology, p. 204

“The single most important factor that has undermined the notion of inspiration is the rise of an historical consciousness.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Five, The Status of Scripture in the Church, p. 91

“To describe the phenomenon is to unmask it.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Two, Faith and the Community of Beliefs, p. 35

“There are many aspects of the ancient laws of Israel that simply do not mediate an experience of divine will for people today.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Six, Scripture and Theology, p. 118

“Faith is a universal human phenomenon. All people live by some faith.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter One, Faith As A Dimension of The Human, p. 15

“Theology is an ungainly discipline. Unlike many other pursuits of wisdom, even its most fundamental principles are disputed by those who practice it.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Eleven, Dynamics of Theology, p. 215

“Reason operates critically in any number of different ways.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Two, Faith and the Community of Beliefs, p. 39

“Every doctrine from the past cannot be salvaged.”

Roger Haight

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Two, Faith and the Community of Beliefs, p. 44

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