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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

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.

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.

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Theology is anthropology.