Against Liberal Theology Quotes

“My experience as a Christian theologian for forty years is that the majority of people attracted to liberal Christianity are Christians raised in rigidly fundamentalist homes and churches who have moved into progressive Christianity—whatever that means”
― Roger E. Olson, Against Liberal Theology: Putting the Brakes on Progressive Christianity

“Ritschl taught that when Christians affirm the divinity of Jesus Christ, they mean that Jesus Christ has the value of God for them. Jesus was the inaugurator of the kingdom of God, which is God’s highest good. Because Jesus’ life was unequaled in devotion to the kingdom of God, he has the value of God. God realized his highest good in the man”
― Roger E. Olson, Against Liberal Theology: Putting the Brakes on Progressive Christianity

“Arius of Alexandria denied the ontological deity of Jesus Christ and was excommunicated by the Council of Nicea in 325. His heresy, Arianism, was a bit different from Paul of Samosata’s, but both denied the deity”
― Roger E. Olson, Against Liberal Theology: Putting the Brakes on Progressive Christianity