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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
Theology is anthropology.