Anglican Theological Review, January 1st, 2004
In the opening lecture of our theology course one year, I told my class that theology is concerned with human happiness. Two students in the front row became uneasy at this statement and let me know indirectly that from that moment on, they discounted me. Here I seek to remind such students that to discount the importance of human happiness is to misunderstand theology and its purpose in two senses. First, if they think that theology is limited to believing propositions in order to get to heaven, they imply that theology is not about life in this world. Even a cursory glance at Christian thoug...
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