Worry and Analytic Theology

Abstract

The analytic method of theological inquiry has been around (in name) long enough to be identified by certain literary patterns. One such pattern appears in the liberal use of the term “worry.” More than some trivial terminological tic, in this article, I argue that “worry” names a methodological problem, which, left unaccounted for, increases the risk that analytic theologians will, as Westerholm suggests, “[drift] further and further into constructed abstraction.”