I found this helpful:
“The best way to understand theology is to see it, not as the study about God (for their are godless theologies as well as godly ones) but the investigation of the convictions of a convictional community, discovering its convictions, interpreting them, criticizing them in light of all that we know, and creatively transforming them into better ones if possible....Theologians, then, are concerned with convictions, not merely in themselves, but in relation to the persons and communities that embrace those convictions, and they are interested in what those convictions are about…”
James McClendon (1990.20)
