Quote of the Day

My point is that theological education cannot be reduced to the learning of clerical skills or to scholarly knowledge. ... My assumption is that all Christians are inevitably engaged everyday in existential responses to the world, and that theology concerns the wisdom by which one brings the resources of a religious tradition to bear on the world. This task calls not for indifference or innocence or naïveté but wisdom—the ability to assess what is going on and to appraise new possibilities. ... one is embodying or incorporating oneself into a living tradition. That's a creative act and an interpretive act, an act of theological understanding.

Edward Farley, The Christian Century, Vol.115, Feb. 4-11, p.113;
emphasized by me.