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Chapter 5
Part II: Sources and Methods:
5. Getting Started: Preliminaries.

QUESTIONS
 
1.

Critique the following definition of theology: "Theology is talk about God." [answer]

2.

What difficulties with the idea of theology as an academic discipline lie behind the growing interest in spirituality within the churches and seminaries?[answer]

3.

Explain the role played by the following in the development of theology: Peter Lombard's Sentences, John Calvin's Institutes, and the work of F. D. E. Schleiermacher. [answer]

4.

Do you have to be Christian to be a Christian theologian? [answer]

5.

Is the notion of 'heresy' now an irrelevance for Christian theology?[answer]