5 Quotes by Andrew Louth

Creation is not abandoned by God, it is not godless, for apart from God it would not be at all; it is not deprived of grace for it owes its existence to grace. Rather, creation is graced, it is holy; in creation God may be encountered.

Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was the Enlightenment that conceived of the human as almost exclusively rational and intellectual, and set the human at a distance from the animal.

The method of science is logical and rational; the method of the humanities is one of imagination, sympathetic understanding, ‘indwelling.

The method of science is logical and rational; the method of the humanities is one of imagination, sympathetic understanding, ’indwelling.

The purpose of theology is to safeguard against misunderstandings that frustrate a Christian life of prayer.