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If jesus is not theologian were did christian theology come from?
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∙ 14y ago
Jesus was the theologian par excellance; He does not merely study God (which is what a theologian does), He IS God. A theologian seeks to know about God; the Father's knowledge of Himself is so consuming that it begets Jesus, the Son. That is what Jesus is; the Father's knowledge of Himself, or "the image of the invisible God." (Col. 1:15) So you see, Jesus knows God more than anybody else (because he is the identity of God), and insofar is this knowledge is what theologians seek, He is the first and greatest theologian.
However, I suspect that your question is more along the lines of "Christian theology seems kind of fabricated because Jesus wasn't a theologian." I would answer that Jesus was a theologian in the sense that he taught about the nature of God and things of that nature. But we must keep in mind that the practice of "theology" as a separate study from philosophy and religion is a very recent phenomenon. So I would say it's unfair to try to categorize Christ as something that didn't even exist in His time.
But Theology "came from" prayerful reflection on God. Because we are made in His image (Gen 1:27), the likeness of which being primarily in the soul, and it's rational and appetitic characteristics, God has given us the ability to reason; this reason can and does take the form of theology (among other things).
But our natural reason can only take us so far. Ultimately it is Jesus, with the Spirit that teaches us about God. (1 Cor. 2)
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