(January 15, 2018 at 5:34 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Good theology, bad theology, incompatible with x's interpretation of my special-book theology (sigh).
Sure, there is "bad" theology. I think "prosperity theology" is pretty heinous.
But when people talk about theology now, I keep smacking up against what theology is: "the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; especially : the study of God and of God's relation to the world"
The study of God's relation to the world. IMHO that clearly states: arguing at length over something that doesn't exist. I would much rather listen to pre-teen-age boys argue over who would win if Batman and Spiderman had a fight.
I think that we are talking about separate things.
What I am talking about is more about methodology than a particular conclusion or your particular feelings and aversions to it.
It's the same as good science or good history, or really anything that you can study. It's not about the conclusion as much as why and how you got there. And even an answer that is correct does not mean that the way in which it was arrived at was particularly good.
In a class I took, they described it this way. Nearly everyone who has a thought about God, has a theology; even those who are against theology or any type of study have a theology, it's just likely a poor and underdeveloped one, because they haven't thought about it much.
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. - Alexander Vilenkin
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther