Lisa Harper: An Unkind Theologian Is a Bad One

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Lisa Harper defines theology as talk about God, which makes every believer a theologian of some kind. Ed Stetzer tests what that definition asks of pastors, preachers, and seminaries. Stetzer, who trains seminarians at Talbot School of Theology, presses Harper on two gaps: students who learn theological words without being formed by them, and leaders whose correct doctrine seems to earn a pass for bad character. Harper answers from Matthew 23 and John 5, where Jesus confronts learned men who knew the Scriptures and missed him, and from Francis Schaeffer's warning about orthodoxy without compassion. She argues that a leader who can define every term but lacks humility holds information that…