Roger Haight Quotes
1936–2025 United States
Roger Haight (April 30, 1936 – June 19, 2025) was an American Jesuit theologian. Haight was the president of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
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22 quotes
One cannot reason without a conceptual content that is historically mediated.
As an appeal to hope the symbol of the kingdom of God is utopic.
A symbol is first of all a finite reality of this world.
Responsibility to history and tradition creates freedom.
Every doctrine from the past cannot be salvaged.
This dialectical structure must be understood in terms of a dynamic process of communication.
Without a question, without inquiry, scripture and tradition remain mere data.
Reason operates critically in any number of different ways.
To describe the phenomenon is to unmask it.
Faith is a universal human phenomenon. All people live by some faith.
Revelation as a consciousness of God's Presence is available to all.
Salvation is an individual's personal encounter with God's Presence.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roger Haight (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.