How do I keep from making God just an object of study? Dr. Michael Allen encourages believers to pursue the presence and love of God as the ultimate object of theological study. There are lots of things we can study, and many of us who are Christian, many of us who pursue higher education in the realm of theological studies, we study other things, too. We may have majored in literature or in economics. We have, perhaps, studied medicine or other fields. One of the things you observe as you consider these various fields is that you look at data, you read literature, and you try and take stock of the state of the conversation. You assess and analyze. You make connections. You draw distinctions. You maneuver around and manipulate your data so as to ask the right questions, organize it in a productive way, and draw conclusions that hopefully provide clarity.
