Christian ‘theology’, then, was born and nurtured in the context of faith, worship, baptism and eucharist, and came to expression through the need to mark out the community which worshipped this god from communities that worshipped others. If everybody agrees about the gods, or about their particular god, there is no need for theology. The nearest we come to it in pre-Christian Judaism is, perhaps, in the anti-pagan polemic of the wisdom writers. But when the question of god is forced into the centre of the agenda, as it was at once in early Christianity, then theology, as an activity
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The primeval Christian theology is missiology.
