Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
2-1-1953
Document Type
Article
Keywords
wisdom, theologian, foolishness, st. paul, philosophy
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
A stewardess on a plane once asked me what I was. I answered, not quite without malice I am afraid, that I was a theologian. She didn't commit herself too strongly on that, merely opining that I was probably the first theologian that she had ever "carried"; but she seemed impressed. I have since wondered whether she should have been; by the standards that govern the creation of airlines and all the other streamlined paraphernalia, physical and spiritual, of our civilization, she shouldn't have been. For the theologian is by Biblical definition a fool, a child, and a slave; and they are not impressive entities.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
1 Corinthians 1:17-25; 1 Corinthians 3:18; Matthew 18:1-4; Matthew 20:25-28;
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Franzmann, Martin H.
(1953)
"The Marks of the Theologian,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 24, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol24/iss1/9
