A variety of other matters have historically been made
the direct objects of study in trust that studying them would lead indirectly to truer understanding of God.
These are the various subject matters that are the immediate or
direct objects of study in theological schooling.
The proposal does imply that congregations ought to be one of the subject matters that are
the direct objects of study.
Not exact matches
Intellectual activity motivated by such interests may indeed make Ultimate Being and man its
objects of study and so seem to share in the thought
of the Church; but insofar as it is
directed by a love that is not love
of Being and
of man it can not see or understand what love understands.
Historical
study in theology, when theology is
directed toward its chief
objects, is always more like a conversation with a large company
of similarly concerned and experienced men than like the tracing
of a life history, whatever values there are in the latter procedure.
When communication is a one - way process, proceeding from an authoritative person to an immature learner who is not in
direct relation to the
object of the
study, intellectual activity is at a minimum in both parties; such a school is not a community
of students but a propaganda or indoctrination institution.
In a preliminary follow - up
study directed by Lillard, 16 girls and boys, ages 3 to 6, chose between playing with 10 real
objects, such as a microscope, or toy versions
of the same
objects.