In the eyes of her doting mentor, this emancipated woman is "a brilliant young star on the horizon of academic theology."

Dominic's new order was to be a preaching order, trained to preach in the vernacular languages but with a sound background in academic theology.

The Catholic Church, through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, appears to be particularly concerned with academic theology.

He has edited four books of academic theology, and is the author of seven books.

I hope he is not representative of the state of academic theology at large.

Traditionally the B.D. was in fact a graduate degree rather than a first degree, and typically emphasised academic theology, biblical languages etc.

He always called himself a pastor, not a theologian, reflecting the distance between his ideas and academic theology.

He wrote a dissertation on the different forms of Liberation Theology and their relation to academic Western theology (1990).

Nevertheless, they have affected not only Catholic academic theology but also popular teaching and practice.

One tiny irony: in the years since 1971, when the song first appeared, academic theology has filtered down to the street, dismantling the religious imagery used by Lennon.