My degree in theology was an important part of my formation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.
Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.
I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.
I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.
I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
I grew up with a very religious background.
By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.