Greatest theologian of all time?
posted by Matt Friedeman @ 3:35 PM
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
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'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world. (William Booth)
3 Comments:
Calvin? Hardly. He essentially borrowed Augustine's theology and launched it into theological hyperspace. Why not Augustine himself? (To my knowledge he never had anyone burned at the stake.)
Well...
I know Wesley wasn't a "theologian" but I will still rely on a theology based on holy love and is lived out on the highways and byways of the spiritually hungry, the poor and the lowly, the prisoners and the outcasts of the Anglican Church.
Orthodoxy is but a small slice of Christianity, if it can be counted a slice at all (a Wesley paraphrase). In the great tradition of Jesus and His brother James you must do something about it. Wesley did. And did some pretty good theologizing along the way through his journals, letters, sermons, hymns and other writings. That is why he is my man for all seasons.
Darn that marriage!
Matt
The greatest theologian... Hmmm? If one counts that on the basis of influence, then Thomas Aquinas has had the most wide spread influence, since Thomism has been embraced by Roman Catholic thinkers and Catholicism counts for more Christians than any other branch of Christianity. I'd vote for him for any number of reasons, because he addresses a wide range of topics all the way from metaphysics to works of mercy.
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