The basic thrust of this letter is that theology and religious studies have a twofold social benefit. From the standpoint of traditional Christian theology, this means that the letter totally misses the point of why theology matters. As Alister McGrath correctly notes in his book, Christian Theology An Introduction, the study of theology has traditionally been understood as ‘discourse about God’ (which is the meaning of the Greek word ‘theologia’ from which the English word ‘theology’ is derived). In our modern, and largely secular, Western Society the question that inevitably arises is why it matters that theology understood in this sense should be studied. It is because Christian theology, and only Christian theology, tells us this, that the study of Christian theology is of more importance than any other field of study.