theology matters

I'm supposed to blog here tomorrow about theology and why it is important.

And it is. I could wax eloquent for hours.

Except it's not coming. Feeling a little inadequate, a tendency to be a bit preachy and imperative. I'm a harsh writer and tend to be a little aggressive with absolute statements.

Tony Reinke blogged this quote this morning:

From Marilynne Robinson’s The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (Picador, 2005), page 117:

“Good theology is always a kind of giant and intricate poetry, like epic or saga. It is written for those who know the tale already, the urgent messages and the dying words, and who attend to its retelling with a special alertness, because the story has a claim on them and they on it. … Theology is written for the small community of those who would think of reading it. So it need not define freighted words like ‘faith’ or ‘grace’ but may instead reveal what they contain. To the degree that it does them any justice, its community of readers will say yes, enjoying the insight as their own and affirming it in that way.”

That's just beautiful. What more could I say?

[edit]And there it is.[/edit]