I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.
A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.