Roger Haight Quotes

Responsibility to history and tradition creates freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To describe the phenomenon is to unmask it.

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

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

Reason operates critically in any number of different ways.

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

Theology today may be understood as a discipline which seeks to understand and determine the underlying truth of all reality.

Every doctrine from the past cannot be salvaged.

Some students cannot accept that radical openness of history, and they lapse into some form of fundamentalism or traditionalism that simply clings to theological formulas of the past.