by sabastious 136 Replies latest jw friends
Theology is the study of religion and religions are human systems of spirituality. It could then be said that theology is the study of the applications of human spirituality. Human spirituality is a chosen way of life. It could then be said that theology is the study of human life as they choose it.
-Sab
Theology
"The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing."
(Thomas Paine)
Paine you are the living end!
-Sab
Theology is the study of God and the things of God, not man (anthropology). It is the queen of sciences. There is no more exciting subject than theology. Comparative religions looks at religion, including false ones. JWs are not much into theology and just have pat, simplistic answers to deeper biblical issues. They do not do serious research, just spout 19th century traditions that are left in the dust by much better recent scholarship.
What a load of rubbish you come up with, badrulz. Just because you get your rocks off rolling in the church isles babbling nonsense, doesn't mean what you do is of interest to anyone else....
....and even if you did study theology, there is no guarantee that you would become, or remain, religious. New Zealand's best known theologian, Sir Lloyd George Geering, is an athiest.
YouTube - The Last Western Heretic - Lloyd Geering part1 |
An atheistic theologian is an oxymoron, emphasis on moron.
Theology is the study of God
The different depictions of God are too numerous to count much less study. Agreement, so far, cannot be made as to what God actually is. The systems that we create based off of our ideas of "God" are what theologians are actually studying: religion.
-Sab
Theology proper is biblical and systematic. It is the historical, orthodox, biblical Judeo-Christian faith. It is not apologetics or comparative religions, per se. True theology is biblical, the primary source of revelation about God. Studying cultic false teaching is not theology. There is true, good, biblical theology, and false 'theology' that is error. There are many false gods and false religions, but this contrasts with the true God and biblical Christianity. Secular or liberal scholars may grope around trying to figure out what to believe or not (likely accepting many ways, despite contradictions). We are to defend and proclaim the faith once for all entrusted to the saints and develop sound doctrine/theology based on Scripture (Jude 3).
An atheistic theologian is an oxymoron, emphasis on moron.
Wikipedia
Sir Lloyd George Geering, ONZ, GNZM, CBE, born 26 February 1918, is a New Zealand theologian, who faced charges ofheresy in 1967 for his controversial views. He considers Christian and Muslim fundamentalism to be "social evils".
He can't be that stupid. He's got your type pegged.
Godrulz "Theology proper is Biblical.............. " You do remind me of the W.T with your own definition of words.
If theology limits itself to the Judeo-Christian god, then it certainly is not a science, let alone the "queen of sciences.
It would be like someone studying early English literature and limiting themselves to Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Theology is the "Study of the nature of god and religious truth" in my dictionary.
As Dawkins rightly says , you may as well have Degrees in Fairyology. It cannot be a science. See Paine above.
