He lives his life in terms of a series of implicit assumptions about God, man, law, sanctions, and time, as well as eternity. He is generally unaware of his implicit theology, but he always has one. The average person is not a master of any intellectual specialty, but he is dependent on those who are. Men have always been dependent on priests. Modern man does not accept the fact that the debates among theologians have the same importance in his life, let alone in a culture's life, as the debates among scientists, but modern man is wrong.
Theology is complex.
Even though most people do not understand this complexity, it makes a difference what they believe about God, man, law, sanctions, and time. Athanasius held that Jesus Christ was not of like essence as God the Father, but of the same essence. Our world is what it is because of that ancient confession. Yet we hear no discussion of this fact in the typical history class, even a class in Church history in a conservative theological seminary. He resents this fact of eternal life.