Living theologians with whom I find myself in most sympathy tend to be either moderate evangelicals (Eugene Peterson, Tom Wright) or non-doctrinaire Catholics, like Nicholas Lash and James Alison. One of the latter is Fergus Kerr, and I’ve just taken delivery of his ’20th C Catholic theologians’, which looks most exciting. At the end of the preface he writes this:

“I cannot resist adding a word of thanks to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of the Internet search engine Google, without which my claims to learning would be even more tenuous.”

Now there is a sentiment with which I am in wholehearted sympathy!