Thanks for this Greg, I think for many of us the word theology was foreign when starting out in our education. However when you realise that you are always doing theology, even when you don't know it, you start to shift. I had this very conversation with some students in chaplaincy recently who where from a Church of Christ background- who could not understand at first that knowing biblical text is not theology.
I have found the Wesleyan Quadrilateral very helpful to in getting people to explore the way in which we do might already do theology (scripture, tradition, reason, experience). When we were working on making change when I was a local church pastor we started by exploring what each of these mean, and which you might resonant with. We had lots of fun playing with how these work, which ones might speak to us, and which we might even deny having. We had people from various backgrounds, not just CofC, so a number of assumptions were exposed.
Thanks for this Greg, I think for many of us the word theology was foreign when starting out in our education. However when you realise that you are always doing theology, even when you don't know it, you start to shift. I had this very conversation with some students in chaplaincy recently who where from a Church of Christ background- who could not understand at first that knowing biblical text is not theology.
I have found the Wesleyan Quadrilateral very helpful to in getting people to explore the way in which we do might already do theology (scripture, tradition, reason, experience). When we were working on making change when I was a local church pastor we started by exploring what each of these mean, and which you might resonant with. We had lots of fun playing with how these work, which ones might speak to us, and which we might even deny having. We had people from various backgrounds, not just CofC, so a number of assumptions were exposed.