On 11 Jul 2012, at 23:39, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/11/2012 10:36 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi <use...@rudnyi.ru>
wrote:
> In Germany theology still belongs to universities. What I like is
that you will find as a department of theoretical theology as well
as a department of practical theology.
I disagree, I don't like it. You are assuming that there exists a
organized field of knowledge called "theology", but I can not find
the slightest evidence that is in fact true. Lawrence Krauss said
that it is his habit to ask every theologian he meets "what
advances in theology have been made in the last 400 years?", but he
has never received a straight answer from a single one of them, the
best he has gotten was "what do you mean by advances?". A expert in
mathematics or physics or biology or literature or ANY other field
would not give a weasel answer like that, they'd just rattle off a
list of advances, but not theology. He also said he was on a panel
at a college and somebody asked another scientist there why there
is something rather than nothing and the scientist said "that's a
question to ask the head of the theology department not me", but
Krauss said "why ask him rather than the college gardener or
plumber or cook?". I have no answer to Krauss's question because
like him I think that where theology is concerned there is no
expertise and no field.
John K Clark
In fact one might say that IS the advance in theology over the last
400yrs: It has no subject matter. Of course Bruno wants "theology"
to mean something different than any dictionary definition.
What is the difference?
Cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology
Bruno
Brent
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