Roger Haight quotes

A symbol is first of all a finite reality of this world. (Roger Haight)
Each book of the New Testament is in its own way a methodical interpretation of the Christian experience of revelation.
Roger Haight
As an appeal to hope the symbol of the kingdom of God is utopic.
Roger Haight
The presuppositions of biblical scholarship explain better why, as historically conditioned pieces of writing, the scriptures are filled with errors and inconsistencies.
Roger Haight
Without a question, without inquiry, scripture and tradition remain mere data.
Roger Haight
Theology today may be understood as a discipline which seeks to understand and determine the underlying truth of all reality.
Roger Haight
Revelation as a consciousness of God's Presence is available to all.
Roger Haight
Theology seeks to explain the meaning of Christian assertions in a language comprehensible to any given age.
Roger Haight
A great deal of what we know about reality is accompanied by little more interest than simple curiosity.
Roger Haight
This dialectical structure must be understood in terms of a dynamic process of communication.
Roger Haight
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. (Roger Haight)
Responsibility to history and tradition creates freedom.
Roger Haight
One cannot reason without a conceptual content that is historically mediated.
Roger Haight
The single most important factor that has undermined the notion of inspiration is the rise of an historical consciousness.
Roger Haight
To describe the phenomenon is to unmask it.
Roger Haight
There are many aspects of the ancient laws of Israel that simply do not mediate an experience of divine will for people today.
Roger Haight
Faith is a universal human phenomenon. All people live by some faith.
Roger Haight
Theology is an ungainly discipline. Unlike many other pursuits of wisdom, even its most fundamental principles are disputed by those who practice it.
Roger Haight
Reason operates critically in any number of different ways.
Roger Haight
Every doctrine from the past cannot be salvaged.
Roger Haight
Salvation is an individual's personal encounter with God's Presence. (Roger Haight)