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Roger Haight Quotes (1936-2025)
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About Roger Haight
Roger Haight (April 30, 1936 – June 19, 2025) was an American Jesuit theologian. Haight was the president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. His views on Christology prompted the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to bar him from writing on theology and to forbid him from teaching.
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“Reason operates critically in any number of different ways.”
“To describe the phenomenon is to unmask it.”
“Revelation as a consciousness of God's Presence is available to all.”
“Salvation is an individual's personal encounter with God's Presence.”
“Responsibility to history and tradition creates freedom.”
“Faith is a universal human phenomenon. All people live by some faith.”
“This dialectical structure must be understood in terms of a dynamic process of communication.”
“One cannot reason without a conceptual content that is historically mediated.”
“A great deal of what we know about reality is accompanied by little more interest than simple curiosity.”
“Each book of the New Testament is in its own way a methodical interpretation of the Christian experience of revelation.”
“The single most important factor that has undermined the notion of inspiration is the rise of an historical consciousness.”
“Theology today may be understood as a discipline which seeks to understand and determine the underlying truth of all reality.”
“Theology seeks to explain the meaning of Christian assertions in a language comprehensible to any given age.”
“Theology seeks to explain the meaning of Christian assertions in a language comprehensible to any given age.”
“There are many aspects of the ancient laws of Israel that simply do not mediate an experience of divine will for people today.”
“Theology is an ungainly discipline. Unlike many other pursuits of wisdom, even its most fundamental principles are disputed by those who practice it.”
“The presuppositions of biblical scholarship explain better why, as historically conditioned pieces of writing, the scriptures are filled with errors and inconsistencies.”
“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.”
About Roger Haight
Roger Haight (April 30, 1936 – June 19, 2025) was an American Jesuit theologian. Haight was the president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. His views on Christology prompted the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to bar him from writing on theology and to forbid him from teaching.