Theology is not just for academics and experts in universities - it's what all Christians do whenever they explore and reflect on their faith.
TODAY'S OBJECT: The book "God Matters" by Herbert McCabe
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SUMMARY:
The word ‘theology’ comes from two Greek words: theos (meaning ‘God’) and logos (meaning ‘word’ or ‘reason’). So theology literally means ‘thinking or speaking about God’.
St Anselm has given us the most widely quoted definition of theology: it is ‘faith seeking understanding’. Each word is important.
Theology is that search to understand more deeply the faith that we have already received, the faith of the Church. It presupposes this faith - as it is expressed in Holy Scripture and the Christian Tradition. And it presupposes the faith of the one seeking, who wants to understand more deeply a gift that has already been embraced.
It is an ongoing search, driven by wonder and curiosity and need, rather than just a restatement of received truths. It recognises that each person and each generation needs to break open anew the unsurpassable gift of faith, and that each culture may find new expressions of faith and will bring this faith to bear on radically new situations.
And it is a search for understanding: to make sense of what we believe; to see what it means for our life; to see how it connects with other truths and other meanings.
At one level, theology is an academic discipline done by specialists. At another level, it is the reflection that every Christian does when we try to discover the meaning and implications of faith for the concrete circumstances of our lives.
Mere words can never fully express the richness and beauty of the Truth revealed by Christ, but they can help us draw closer to it and grow in our understanding.
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