Michael Roth

“Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.”
― H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age

“Nothing is as evanescent in history as the pansophic theories that flourish among the illuminati of all times under the bright sunlight of the latest scientific discoveries; and nothing can be more easily dismissed by later periods as mere speculation.”
― H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age

“To be pilgrims means that men must perpetually return to the starting-point of that naked humanity which is absolute poverty and utter insecurity. God must not be sought as though he sat enthroned upon the summit of religious attainment. He is to be found on the plain where men suffer and sin. The veritable pinnacle of religious achievement is attained when men are thrust down into the company of those who lie in the depths. The true faith is the "faith of Abraham which he had in uncircumcision"; the true children of Abraham are thy whom God is able to raise up "of these stones". Where this is overlooked, the first must become the last, for only the last can be first.”
― Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans

“Theology is not promoted by culture but by the belief in God’s revelation as an event beyond all human history, to which Scripture bears witness and which finds confirmation in the Confessions of our Church. Only a theology that clings inexorably to these most essential presuppositions can help build up a Church that really stands unshaken amidst all the attacks of the spirit of the age. And such a Church alone will be the salt of the earth and the light of the world; any other Church will perish along with the world.”
― John B. Webster, Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch