Relationship between Christian action and theological understanding

Christian action itself will become aimless and sporadic,

unless it is illuminated by clear theological understanding.

- John Macquarrie.

*John Macquarrie (27 June 1919 – 28 May 2007) was a Scottish theologian and philosopher, the author of Principles of Christian Theology (1977) and Jesus Christ in Modern Thought (1991). Timothy Bradshaw, writing in the Handbook of Anglican Theologians, described Macquarrie as "unquestionably Anglicanism's most distinguished systematic theologian in the second half of the twentieth century."