Greenhouse Theology

Since the days of Thomas Aquinas and other scholastics in the Middle Ages, theology has been done by sitting and reading, thinking and reasoning, seeing the logical connections between ideas, and drawing conclusions from them.

It was a very sedentary activity that took place not in the world of action but in a secluded academic womb, be it a monastery, a university or a seminary.

This style of theology produced volumes of books that could fill entire libraries, but very little of it touched the daily lives of people or had much effect on the world in which they lived.

-- The Wild Man's Journey p. 155 by Richard Rohr