Why do you love teaching and researching about Christian theology?
As a 16-year-old kid, I became a passionate reader of theology. I was in search of the shape of the true life in the midst of a false one. For the last 50 years or so, I’ve continued to study theology with similar intensity and for the same reason. God and God’s relation to the world is the subject matter of theology. However, the purpose of theology is not God, but participation in the realization of God’s purpose for the world, which is the truly flourishing life of each creature individually and of all creatures together in the life-giving presence of God. Christian theology is concerned with the most important questions of human existence, to which the sciences can contribute, but which they, by the very nature of their methodologies, are unable to address. To teach about all of this is both exciting and important, all the more so as these questions have been largely marginalized both in modern