because i've been down this road too many times in the past, is it any wonder why i'm an axiom freak today?!
norm
------------------------------------- Actually, that's false. Theology *is* the science of faith and God. That's what theologians do. For those who accept the presuppositions, the rest is downright positivistic. Check out anything by Donald Wiebe - who has spent his entire career providing a powerful critique of theologians who stray from the path of science.
> although most people are not interested in their work. --jks
Last time I checked, the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature were enjoying a rather healthy membership...
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Why is it necessary to distinguish theology from a list of other humanities that use a scholarship that is empirical in practice but is quite far from a science?
I don't have any intellectual problem with putting theology in the humanities wing, since it was the original academic discipline. However, to call it a science is ridiculous, and confuses an interpretative scholasticism with a rigorously empirical methodology, taking us back to when, the fourth century? Nobody has considered christianity an hypothesis since Theodosius tossed the altar of Victory out of the forum, closed the Olympic games and ended even a toleration of paganism back in the 390's.
I believe this was considered the dawn of the Dark Ages. Really Ken.
Chuck Grimes