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Theology is just philosophy. Applied Theology is an American evangelist field of study that focuses on shaping your life and the world around you to operate ac

Theology is just philosophy. Applied Theology is an American evangelist field of study that focuses on shaping your life and the world around you to operate according to the will and word of the Christian Evangelist god.

beaconstudios 5y ago
Looks to me like a degree for people intending to become a priest/minister/etc. Oxford (UK): https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mth-applied-theology https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mth-applied... California Baptist: https://calbaptist.edu/programs/bachelor-of-applied-theology/ https://calbaptist.edu/programs/bachelor-of-applied-theology...
- StrictDabbler 5y ago
  From your second link: "Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers." This is one of those very frustrating conversations to have online, not that different from people saying "but it's the People's Democratic Republic of whatever." The Baptist thing called "applied theology" is a part of the Dominionist movement. Fundamentally it's a theocratic endeavor. I agree that theology has been used in a thousand ways across two thousand years and I'm sad that if you have a degree in "Applied Theology" from a small religious college in the Midwest it's definitely not just "I was thinking of becoming a minister." But dominionism is a real thing. People major in it, they drop out, they get other jobs, and then you have this record of their beliefs right there on their resumes. It'd be easier if they had no degree at all.
  - beaconstudios 5y ago
    you could well be right that this is a dominion thing, though I don't see anything suggesting such - but then I can imagine it's not openly promoted, if so. > Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers I don't see an issue with this, if discipling unbelievers means something similar to promoting the church, or missionary-esque behaviour (of the non-colonial form, obviously). If it means how to deal with atheists in a theocracy then I'm not a fan.

beaconstudios 5y ago

Looks to me like a degree for people intending to become a priest/minister/etc. Oxford (UK): https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mth-applied-theology https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mth-applied... California Baptist: https://calbaptist.edu/programs/bachelor-of-applied-theology/ https://calbaptist.edu/programs/bachelor-of-applied-theology...

StrictDabbler 5y ago
From your second link: "Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers." This is one of those very frustrating conversations to have online, not that different from people saying "but it's the People's Democratic Republic of whatever." The Baptist thing called "applied theology" is a part of the Dominionist movement. Fundamentally it's a theocratic endeavor. I agree that theology has been used in a thousand ways across two thousand years and I'm sad that if you have a degree in "Applied Theology" from a small religious college in the Midwest it's definitely not just "I was thinking of becoming a minister." But dominionism is a real thing. People major in it, they drop out, they get other jobs, and then you have this record of their beliefs right there on their resumes. It'd be easier if they had no degree at all.
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  you could well be right that this is a dominion thing, though I don't see anything suggesting such - but then I can imagine it's not openly promoted, if so. > Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers I don't see an issue with this, if discipling unbelievers means something similar to promoting the church, or missionary-esque behaviour (of the non-colonial form, obviously). If it means how to deal with atheists in a theocracy then I'm not a fan.