"When churches abandon or de-emphasize theology, they give up the intellectual tools by which the Christian message can be articulated and defended. In the resulting chaos of religious ideas, the principal criterion left to the community as it seeks to find its way is, quite naturally, that of expediency."
--Peter Berger, The Noise of Solemn Assemblies, p. 124 (cited in Lints, The Fabric of Theology)
