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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.
Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.
At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
Theology is anthropology.