(October 31, 2019 at 7:29 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: For whatever it's worth...
https://bible.org/article/ttp-endorsemen...d-students
I was hoping to find a more secular theology program, but I am unsure if theology as a subject is inherently spiritual. Maybe I'm more so looking for a Study of Religion program... Still, I'm going to finish this course first, and go from there.
From a glance at the web site, it looks as though it's aimed at people who are already believers. It's not the kind of thing that interests me, but if you want to know what those people are up to it makes sense. They are certain to be beginning with the reality of God as a given, it seems to me, and probably spending time on how to be a good Christian rather than philosophical ideas.
For me, the best introduction to theology is a history of philosophy course, like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yat0ZKduW18
It traces the development of ideas like the Good and the Logos, and how they eventually fit into Christian theology. And he's not trying to convert you.
And for the record, everything Gae is telling you is false. Scholasticism isn't for fundamentalists, and Thomas never worked on the angels-on-a-pin question. That was made up later as an insult. It may be related to very different questions where the Schoolmen spell out the difference between location and extension, but the idea that they wanted a numerical answer is a lie.