Which is why theology should be mandatory field of study. Part of basic universal academic curriculum. Theological illiteracy even among so-called Christians is another great travesty of our time. Even the current events of today have theological foundations. Conflicts rooted in theological differences...
People should know why a Calvinist and a Catholic may have conflicting views on art for example. (To be fair this does get touched on in secular Art History courses.) Or why Eastern Orthodox political culture developed differently from Western Christian world etc...Or how Muslims view the concept of a Judgment Day as opposed to Jews etc...
Back in the day, *basic* scholarship required the study of Greek, Latin, sometimes Hebrew -- and literacy in the great classics...
Oxford, Cambridge, and the American Ivy League (sans Cornell) were founded under Christian auspices...varying denominations to be sure, but still.
Theology has fallen out of intellectual favor.