Sophisticated theologians

Sophisticated theologians have spent years at universities or theological colleges and are steeped in hard to understand nonsense truths about God! Sophisticated theologians write complex material with many impressive long words, some even include Latin, New Testament Greek or Hebrew in their texts. To the rest of us theology may look superficially like meaningless drivel but that just shows how uneducated we are. Or does it? 
==The Boudry test==
Dr. Maarten Boudry wanted to find out how well two conferences of theologians can understand the difference between what's sensible and what is meaningless. Below is an example of Boudry's scribbling.
Does that make any sense to you? Maarten Boudry doesn’t think it makes any sense and as the author he should know. Anyway sophisticated theologians listened to the word salad (And it isn't even healthy like a real salad or other culinary masterpiece). The theologians tried to look intelligent and assumed it must make sense somehow or other. 
Theological work that's published without peer review can be anything. Could similar material appear in a peer reviewed theology journal? 
We don't know yet what peer reviewed journals will publish, time will tell.
==Conclusion==
Even nonsense can impress the most sophisticated theologians.
To impact theologians you don't need to make sense. All you need is to use imposing words, write spiritual nonsense and criticise materialists. 
Atheist outsiders can no more than guess how much of regular theology is baloney dressed up in impressive words like what Maarten Boudry wrote. After all in the opinion of David Pollock
Will theology ever recover from the Boudry test?
==Sophisticated means obscure==
Chris Hallquist suggests that real theology is frequently deliberately obscure. (That's why sophisticated theologians couldn't see through Boudrey's work.) 
==Are theologians sophisticated?==
Is there any real division between sophisticated theologians and ordinary unsophisticated theologians? Well those theologians who listened to Dr. Maarten Boudry lecture look like a representative sample of academic theologians and sadly Pharyngula Wiki knows no evidence for theologians anywhere else with greater sophistication.
Undergraduate Christian students look up to those profs and lecturers. Most Christian students imagine those profs and lecturers are intelligent, wise and godly people. Despite this some undergraduates have religious doubts and doubt their lecturers, see Catherine Dunphy and the profs for more. 
What will happen if those naive undergraduates ever find out the truth?
==See also==
*Roman Catholic child abuse Do RC clergy have sophisticated justifications for those cover up's?
*Sophisticated theology
*Theology
==References==
==External links==
*A Sophisticated Theologian asks if God is part of the material universe This is about real Theology but the theology's roughly as meaningless as the Boudry word salad.
*Sophisticated theology Here Atheism Wiki has a slightly different take on Sophisticated theology.
*Relevance of theology Here Atheism Wiki dares to suggest that theology is irrelevant.
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