Comment of the Week: Does Theology Mean Anything?
Comment of the Week: Does Theology Mean Anything? Tuesday September 30, 2008 It is sometimes presumed that people with degrees in or at least experience studying theology are more authoritative when it comes questions about God than most other people. Academic degrees and experience certainly count for other technical fields, but those are fields where there is unquestionably an object of study, a scholarly consensus, etc. The same certainly isn’t true of theology where there is tremendous disagreement over everything and serious questions about whether any gods at all exist. So what does a degree in “theology” really signify? Tracie writes: I know this isn’t exactly what is meant, but it reminds me of a show I saw once where they featured a cryptozoologist who is an expert on Big Foot. Cryptozoology is actually a field that can be studied. And some cryptozoologists have discovered elusiv
Comment of the Week: Does Theology Mean Anything?