Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
The way you become divine is to become wholly human.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.