Watched a good example [organized by Concord, given from Cambridge] of what passes for “theology”, “religious thought”, and both “Concord” and the “Harvard Divinity School”. They would theologize God to death.
Life, the entire world, humanity, history, nature,… all would be placed within a theological system of explanation, and salvation.
So, in a way, both the thoughtless “philistines” and the thoughtful theologians are both in a kind of word dream. The churchgoers listen to and believe the theologians; the theologians do their preaching, imagining they speak of and for “God”. Both, imho, are in a kind of dream state.
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 