....”You’d think they would go farther, exploring the deep richness of Christian theology”.......
They wouldn’t be responding so brilliantly to your posts had they not had a broad and complete understanding of ‘Christian’ Theology.....as opposed to catholic theology....there is a difference between the two.
Asking someone to understand catholic theology is like asking someone to identify ‘counterfeit’ currency......but if you study ‘real’ currency, (true Christian Theology), so that you know every dot and line then you can easily identify the counterfeit. (catholic theology) at a glance....there’s no need to study the counterfeit.
Broad and complete you say? Wow, that's quite the statement. Is that complete in the sense that an angel has full and complete knowledge? I don't know a Catholic who would ever boast of 'knowing it all.' Once again the gnosis of Protestantism peeks its head up. .
But lets run with that for a moment. If the protestant apologist has complete knowledge of everything that it is to be a Christian then how can they possibly offend God with sin if their knowledge is so complete? Unless an act of transcendence has occurred. Their humanity has been left behind for some other order of existence.
P.S.: Catholic theology is Christian. Another artificial bifurcation from team Luther/Zwingli/Calvin.