“Can a theology student be an evil genius?: On the concept of habitus in theological education” by Christopher Craig Brittain

Editor’s Note: Jump to the conclusion, and, alas, the theology student can avoid the self-gratuitous rigors of those dialetics of Pierre Bourdieu’s tender nihilism, altogether, and instead concentrate on orthodoxy. Behold: “The concept of habitus in current writing on theological education does serve to illuminate the significance of practice, dispositions, modelling, and affect in the learning process; however, making it the primary trope through which to approach the discipline of theology threatens to impose a factory- metaphor on pedagogical process.”