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Why Major or Minor in Theology or Religious Studies?
Theological thinking seeks not only an understanding of the nature of religion. It also seeks an understanding of the relationship of religion to a contemporary world where social, political, and economic structures are often unjust; where secular faiths arise; and where scientific and technological advances pose new problems for human self-understanding.
Karl Rahner
“In the ultimate depths of his being man knows nothing more surely than that his knowledge, that is, what is called knowledge in everyday parlance, is only a small island in a vast sea that has not been travelled. It is a floating island, and it might be more familiar to us than the sea, but ultimately it is borne by the sea and only because it is can we be borne by it. Hence the existentiell question for the knower is this: Which does he love more, the small island of his so-called knowledge or the sea of infinite mystery?”