Try to imagine this: In the late fourth century, St. Gregory of Nyssa complained that ordinary people were spending too much time talking about theology. He said: “Mere youths and tradesmen, off-hand dogmatists in theology, servants too, and slaves that have been flogged … are solemn with us and philosophical about things incomprehensible … If you ask for change someone philosophizes to you on the begotten and the unbegotten.”7 And the problem followed poor Gregory wherever he went in the marketplace.