Stop thinking like children.\u201d Paul\u2019s admonition to the Corinthians is even more urgent for us today. Though they should be like little children when it came to evil, he insisted they should be grown-ups when it came to thinking. To that end, Paul constantly tried to teach people not only what to think but how to think. This remains vital. The various disciplines grouped together as \u201ctheology\u201d or \u201cdivinity\u201d are uniquely positioned to continue this project.<\/p>\n
People today often comment about the decline of civil, reasoned conversation in all walks of life. Theology has an opportunity to model a genuinely interdisciplinary conversation of the sort we urgently need, not least because in its very nature it ought to bridge the gap between the academy and the larger world.<\/p>\n
The great theologians of the past\u2014such as Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin\u2014all tried to bring the Bible, philosophy, and theology into a shared conversation. As each of these fields advances, they need one another all the more….<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n “What we badly need: the collaboration of scholars of the Bible, philosophy, and theology.” NTWright on Theology of the Future via @CTmagazine<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/AhAYLNITB0<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 victor lee austin (@victorleeaustin) April 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n