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Because modern theologians are first and foremost academics they tend to spend their lives saying why it is very difficult to do theology in modernity. As a result modern theology tends to be an extended exercise is [sic] throat clearing. But even after the theologians have cleared their throats, it often turns out that they have nothing to say. That is, they have little to say except to say that it is very hard to do theology in modernity.
Stanley Hauerwas (2009). A Cross-Shattered Church: Reclaiming the Theological Heart of Preaching, 11.
