What Do Theologians Study?
And Why is Richard Dawkins Less Able to Study it Than a Theologian? I’m often confused about what theologians study. For sure, they study other theologians and sometimes they study the works of biblical scholars, specifically biblical theologians and they often study sociologists and psychologists. One of my teachers, John Cobb, even studies mathematicians and physicists and he is interested in Buddhist theology as well as Christian theology. Other theologians also study the hard sciences and/or other religions. They all seem to study philosophers. But what exactly do they study in their capacity as theologians. Notice that I distinguished between theologians and biblical theologians. On the one hand, Biblical theologians like Gerhard von Rad with regard to the Hebrew Bible and Rudolf Bultmann with regard to the Christian New Testament, sought to tease out of their respective literatures what those literatures say about God or gods. They may have gone a little beyond that from time to
