Theology on Simposeum

7 thinkers, each answering from their own writing with a citation to the page.

• Jean Calvin — 1509-1564 · They cannot open their eyes without being constrained to behold him.
• Flavius Josephus — c. 37 - c. 100 CE · He who would deliver the history of actions truly ought to know them accurately himself in the first place.
• John Henry Newman — 1801-1890 · Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
• Origen — c. 185 - c. 254 CE · For as man is said to consist of body, and soul, and spirit, so also does sacred Scripture.
• Ernest Renan — 1823-1892 · The Sermon on the Mount will never be surpassed.
• Albert Schweitzer — 1875-1965 · He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake-side.
• David Friedrich Strauss — 1808-1874 · Every part of it is to be subjected to a critical examination, to ascertain whether it have not some admixture of the mythical.