Theology on Simposeum

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

• Jakob Böhme — 1575-1624 · It is in thee, and if thou canst for a while cease from all thy Thinking and willing, thou shalt heare unspeakable words of God.
• John Bunyan — 1628-1688 · As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream.
• Jean Calvin — 1509-1564 · They cannot open their eyes without being constrained to behold him.
• Cyprian of Carthage — c. 200 - 258 CE · He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.
• Irenaeus of Lyons — c. 130 - c. 202 CE · For the glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.
• John of the Cross — 1542-1591 · That thou mayest have pleasure in everything, seek pleasure in nothing.
• Flavius Josephus — c. 37 - c. 100 CE · Every one that undertakes to deliver the history of actions truly ought to know them accurately himself in the first place.
• Julian of Norwich — c. 1342 - after 1416 · It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
• Justin Martyr — c. 100 - c. 165 CE · Whatever things were rightly said among all men, are the property of us Christians.
• Lactantius — c. 250 - c. 325 CE · Religion is to be defended, not by putting to death, but by dying; not by cruelty, but by patient endurance; not by guilt, but by good faith.
• 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.
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite — fl. c. 485-530 CE · And, if any one, having seen God, understood what he saw, he did not see Him, but some of His creatures that are existing and known.
• 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, He came to those men who knew Him not.
• 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.
• Teresa of Avila — 1515-1582 · Mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion, but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him Who, we know, loves us.
• Tertullian — c. 155 - c. 220 CE · The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.