I think (as someone who could best be described as "knows just enough theology to be dangerous, but not enough to really know what he's doing all of the time") it would be helpful to have a comment here about expertise. Gregory the Great has a line: "Scripture is like a river again, broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim." Is the same true of theology? Is theology "for everyone," but at the same time one should be careful not to allow the quotidian wonder of being created in the image of God to be confused with the expertise (dare I use that word) of having carefully studied theology?
I think (as someone who could best be described as "knows just enough theology to be dangerous, but not enough to really know what he's doing all of the time") it would be helpful to have a comment here about expertise. Gregory the Great has a line: "Scripture is like a river again, broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim." Is the same true of theology? Is theology "for everyone," but at the same time one should be careful not to allow the quotidian wonder of being created in the image of God to be confused with the expertise (dare I use that word) of having carefully studied theology?