Roger Haight Quotes

To describe the phenomenon is to unmask it.

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

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

Reason operates critically in any number of different ways.

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

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

The presuppositions of biblical scholarship explain better why, as historically conditioned pieces of writing, the scriptures are filled with errors and inconsistencies.

Every doctrine from the past cannot be salvaged.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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