“Becoming a theologian involves not only coming to know God (theology is simultaneously art, science, and craft), but also becoming a certain kind of person, one whose created intelligence has been illumined by the Holy Spirit.” Kevin Vanhoozer firstthings.com/article/2018/0…
As to learning how to think theologically, let me begin with four adjectives (Trinitarian, biblical, catholic, and systematic) that qualify Christian theological thinking. Each describes a theological habit of mind that has proved useful in getting the understanding faith seeks.
Wisdom is the virtue that regulates and balances all the other virtues, so let me provide a sketch of the wise theologian by describing three pairs of contrasting qualities: Faith and reason, joyful truth-speaking and hopeful truth-suffering, boldness and humility.
If I speak in the tongues of pastors and professors and have not love, I am a noisy guru, not a theologian.
