Theology: Is It A Worthy Discipline In Academia?

Vridar, in a blog post, asks if theology should be even tolerated in twenty-first century institutions of higher learning? This blogger agrees that it is about time to shed the light of reason on this question.

Interestingly, the first comment to this post stated:

“The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.”

–Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Comment by Tim Widowfield