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To: Gamecock

Don’t wish to be the turd in the punchbowl here, but I’m confused. If theology is the study of God, then, as the headline suggests, the study of theology is the study of the study. It almost sounds like something Richard Dawkins would endorse, in the hope of finding some deformed gene responsible for a belief in God.

I’ll just assume that it all means that theology is a good thing, and thank God for His blessings and tender mercies, and go on with the new year.


7 posted on 01/01/2010 11:46:29 AM PST by DPMD (~)
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To: DPMD
If theology is the study of God, then, as the headline suggests, the study of theology is the study of the study.

Left out a key piece.

Just like when we say we are save by faith, it is not the faith itself that saves us, but the object of our faith.

The headline refers back to the object of Theology, not Theology itself.

8 posted on 01/01/2010 11:55:48 AM PST by Gamecock (We always have reasons for doing what we do.)
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