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mwalker1996
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27 Jun 2025, 7:13 am

Have anyone studied theology or taken theology classes in college or seminary?



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27 Jun 2025, 8:44 am

Modules for courses change all the time. I studied religious studies major and had a good broad education. I covered the Old Testament/Christianity and religions of India. I also took classes in Judaism and other things. I also did modules on science creationism-bang big theory and other theories and how they are not incompatabile with Christanity and creationism. Further study could lead me to become a doctor of theology itself, but I do not wish to really look into doing further study.


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29 Jun 2025, 12:22 am

I have several religious degrees



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01 Jul 2025, 3:51 am

The word "theology" concerns me. It makes it sound like God is a subject that can be mastered. Instead what one does is learn the labels and definitions man has created that gives one a feeling of mastery which in fact makes one more distant. It seems a good way to cripple faith.

In a way it seems to encapsulate the deficiencies of industrial classroom instruction as opposed to apprentice relational type instruction.



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01 Jul 2025, 7:57 am

Bible college, 1985, 1986, 1989. Started on my Associate in Theology in 89. Quit Christianity by end of that year.


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01 Jul 2025, 11:34 am

I'm purely an amateur theologian.


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03 Jul 2025, 7:43 am

every member is essentially a theologian in the church of Christ.



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03 Jul 2025, 8:02 am

mwalker1996, what's the impetus for your question?
and do courses and classes taken outside off and after college-/uni- life count as well? :)

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06 Jul 2025, 5:06 pm

I did a bit of theology at school for the Religious Knowledge 'O' level. But a lot of it seemed like pointless, overcomplicated gobbledegook - I think the world could manage very well without the concept of Logos Spermatikos for example. We only covered 2 books - John and one of the others, I forget which. The teacher was pretty light on expecting anybody to believe any of it, and had mainly a scholarly approach to the whole thing. So we were doing things like comparing the different literary styles of the authors.

Naturally as a secular man I'm wary of theology because it seems silly to study something that doesn't exist, especially when it gets so complex and obscure. But it's sometimes interesting to fathom the ideas that underpinned the thinking of the religious egg-heads, even though at the end of the day I see it as a load of bunk.